Nairobi, Kenya, Feb 4 – Police have arrested two suspects masquerading as officials of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) in Nairobi.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the two were arrested as they stormed into the office of an unsuspecting Kenyan purporting to be investigating a land fraud case.
The two were arrested after they entered the WanderJoy Party headquarters along Kiambu road and began harassing its proprietor demanding for a bribe to allegedly go slow on a land fraud case against him.
Police say that they were driving two top of the range vehicles fitted with strobe lights and well-built men hanging on to the vehicles’ doors.
“The self-styled anti-graft director and his accomplice David Mburu, who introduced himself as the anti-corruption deputy director, went straight to Wandere’s office and made their demands without blinking an eye. Detectives based at DCI headquarters got wind of the incident and immediately rushed to the premises, two kilometres away,” the DCI said.
The agency stated that the suspects made a run for it after their detectives arrived at the scene.
“Immediately after they arrived, the men who had accompanied Agutu and sealed off the compound posing as VVIP security detail while flashing walkie talkies, scampered for dear life leaving their master and his deputy in the hands of our sleuths,” the DCI added.
The DCI said that one of the suspects had a long history of engaging in fraud.
They added that when their detectives checked the DCI criminal database, they discovered that Agutu had previously been arrested in September 2017 when he impersonated a Senior Superintendent of Police attached to the Criminal Investigations Department.
In his possession were two other employment cards, all indicating that he held senior management positions at the Kenya Revenue Authority and Kenya Pharmacy and Poisons Board, the agency stated.
“Any person who may have fallen victim to the suspect’s tricks is urged to report to the DCI headquarters Serious Crimes Unit to file their reports,” they added.
Incidences of Kenyans falling victim to people masquerading as government officials have been witnessed in the past, forcing some of them to pert with huge chunks of cash to avoid “prosecution”
