Two Nigerian citizens have been arrested in Nairobi for allegedly swindling Kenyans by impersonating some top politicians and leaders in the country.
Police said the two, identified as Timothy Ogba Ebakole and Alex Olesugun Adebayo had managed to defraud several unsuspecting Kenyans by posing as leaders.
The two are said to have used the names of First Lady Margaret Kenyatta, Kilifi Senator Steward Madzayo, and Bomet Senator Christopher Langat to rob Kenyans.
Kilifi Directorate of Criminal Investigations Officer Christopher Chesoli said a team of detectives from Kilifi traced the two and arrested them in Nairobi’s Kayole estate.
“We had to dispatch our officers from this station and busted the two inn Kayole in Nairobi where we seized equipment and gadgets that they were using to swindle Kenyans,” said Chesoli.
“We believe that they have received millions of shillings from the public. We took them to court on Friday but asked for another seven days to have them so that we can continue with the investigations,” Chesoli said.
The officer said the two impersonated the two senators and the First Lady on Facebook. Seven people who fell prey of their scheme have already recorded statements with the police.
Speaking at Mtwapa Police Station where the two are being held, Senator Madzayo said the two created a fake Facebook account using his profile and began soliciting cash from unsuspecting Kilifi residents
He said they went further to fake his voice and demanded cash from residents wishing to benefit from the Constituency bursary and other funds from the government.
“Even as we speak now, there are people calling and asking why I have not given them bursaries even after giving out money between Sh10,000 and Sh20,000,” he said.
“On the said Facebook account, they had posted on the timeline, saying that my office in partnership with the national government is giving out loans in the name of Kenya Government 2017/2018 Empowerment Loan for Entrepreneurship (Nationwide). This is not true because my office does not have such an engagement,” Madzayo said.
“People have paid hundreds of thousands in Kilifi to get loans which are not there. For the last six months, I had been receiving calls from people in my county who blame me for taking money and then failing to disburse their cash. That is when I decided to report the matter to the police in Mtwapa,” said Madzayo.
This is as result of the…
This is as result of the Kenyan government open door policy on Africans immigration that lets crooked Nigerians enter Kenya without vetting them. When is Kenya going to learn? Ninety Nine point nine(99.9) of Nigerians are engaged in some form of criminal activity. Criminality is in Nigerian blood. It’s in their DNA. There is a universal precaution adopted by many countries that advocates treatments of Nigerians as fraudsters until proven otherwise, just as blood is universally treated as infectious until proven otherwise. The only solution to deter Nigerians fraudsters is to give them a life sentence in a prison. Saudi Arabia just hangs them