NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 14 — Detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested two Ugandans and their Kenyan collaborators in a night raid targeting a phone theft syndicate.
The operation led by DCI’s Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau yielded four suspects, the agency announced on Saturday.
The suspects identified as Malumasi Aisha and Agaba Anestus Majuni, both from naighbouring Uganda, were arrested alongside Sarah Njeri and her sibling Mary Wangui within Nairobi’s Central Business District.
Malumasi, the detectives said, was found in possession of thirteen smartphones believed to be destined for Uganda.
She then led the agents to her accomplices — Sarah Wangari and Mary Wangui — who then led the detectives to the fourth suspect, Agaba Majuni.
Majuni, DCI reported, was preparing to dispatch stollen phones through a parcel service operated by a local bus company.
DCI described the operation as significant in disrupting phone theft syndicates in the capital.
“Mobile phone thugs have found it increasingly difficult to ply their trade in the country, owing to the state of art technology being deployed by our cybercrime detectives based at the DCI National Forensic Laboratory, in arresting mobile phone thieves,” the agency said.
By Elly Tolo.
