Over 450 genuine motor vehicle logbooks have been recovered at a cyber cafe in Nairobi, as detectives intensify a crackdown on organized criminal gangs in the city. In yet another criminal enterprise implicating some crooked officials from the National Transport and
Safety Authority, (NTSA) motor vehicle logbooks bearing the original seals and assorted motor vehicle registration documents were recovered. Detectives acting on information received via our #FichuakwaDCI hotline, busted two men busy at work in a cyber cafe located in Ngara,
along Desai road. The cyber cafe reminiscent of a publishing house had been turned into a motor vehicle registration centre, where an application for a logbook takes a few hours before it is delivered by an insider from NTSA. The mastermind of the syndicate working in cahoots
with officials at the country’s motor vehicle registration body, also illegally develops affidavits and commissions them, before they’re sent to contacts at NTSA for forced transfer of motor vehicles. In a matter of minutes, the transfer of a motor vehicle is finalized
exposing the possibility of one’s vehicle being transferred without his knowledge. To aid in the expeditious change of motor vehicle engines, the detectives established that the syndicate develops falsified importation documents from a renowned car dealer and ETR receipts,
making it one of the most elaborate motor vehicles scams in recent times. Detectives drawn from the elite Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau augmented by sleuths from the operations branch based at Nairobi regional command, also arrested a man who had come to
collect his logbook. Upon a quick inspection of the vehicle he was driving, the detectives realized that its chassis number had been tempered with. Simon Musembi Sammy and Richard Otieno Ojwang are currently guests of the the state
as a manhunt for a number of suspects working at the NTSA, intensifies.
Residents living along the Lamu seafront were treated to a dramatic spectacle yesterday, pitting a drug peddler against police officers based in Lamu island. This is after the peddler a known ex convict who was also carrying panga, resisted arrest and plunged into the sea!
Two of the cops whom #Fichua later learnt that they grew up along the banks of river Nzoia, also dived into the sea, in a spirited aquatic battle to arrest the notorious drug dealer. Their experience swimming across the flooded river while growing up, came in handy.
What followed was a dramatic chase in the stormy sea waters, as the peddler swum towards the deep sea to evade arrest and the determined officers battled the currents closely behind. In a scene lasting about 30 minutes, the thug who would occasionally disappear under the water
Detectives are looking for 2 thugs who were captured last night on CCTV, vandalizing Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) transformers.The two armed with spanners were vandalizing a key power supply unit in Makindu, when a signal was received by detectives manning the SGR system remotely
A contingent of officers based at Makindu and Emali police stations was dispatched to arrest the thugs, who immediately dashed to nearby thickets on noticing the beaming lights of a fast approaching police land cruiser.
Unbeknownst to the thugs, the transformers fitted with a round-the-clock surveillance system had already sent their images to our command centre. As detectives profile the suspects to suffer the consequences of their actions, we wish to inform the public that the
The DCI choir joined other choirs from the Kenya Forestry Research Institute(KEFRI), Nairobi City County and National Housing Corporation, under the Parastatals, Ministries, Counties & Companies choir umbrella (PAMICCO) for their annual Corporate social responsibility initiative
This year the philanthropic songbirds gifted assorted food items to various centres for the needy in Makueni County. They included Unoa Primary School in Wote, Kathonzweni Children's Home and Blessed Peace Children's Home in Makindu.
The choirs completed their charity mission in Kibwezi, where they performed musical numbers for the children, among them the famous ballad 'Tushangilie Kenya' led by its legendary composer Mwalimu Thomas Wesonga.
Four suspects are in custody for forgery of vehicle logbooks and fraudulently obtaining credit using the much coveted document. In a new crime wave that is gaining currency in the city, unscrupulous businesses men working with employees in money lending institutions have devised
a new way of defrauding unsuspecting Kenyans and financial institutions without breaking a sweat. The thugs who have turned into overnight millionaires have built a shadowy network of hard-to-trace individuals, incorporating crooked officials at the
National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA). In a case currently being investigated by detectives based at the NTSA, the Cooperative bank of Kenya had last year financed one Gideon Kiarie, to acquire a lorry after making a deposit of Sh1.2 million.
Notorious Vehicle Theft Suspect Jailed for Life! (A thread)
A man who has for the past few years made the lives of lorry drivers a living hell was yesterday sentenced to life by a Loitoktok court. Until his sentencing, Simon Muia Katuu, was the mastermind of a gang that
abducted lorry drivers before beating them senseless and driving off with their lorries to unknown destinations.
In yet another investigative piece meticulously put together by our detectives, Simon Katuu was found guilty of robbery with violence contrary to section 296 (2)
of the penal code and sent to where he belongs for life. In a ruling delivered at the Loitoktok, principal magistrate’s court, the presiding magistrate Judicaster Thuku, while handing down sentence said that the court was convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the accused
A 41-year-old man was last evening rushed to a Murang’a hospital in serious condition, after he was sodomised by four young men. In the bizarre incident that left villagers of Githiagara in Kugumo, Murang’a county in shock,
the man was walking home from imbibing frothy waters with elders, when he was approached by the four, at around 1am. They immediately dragged him to a secluded area before they wrestled him to the ground and did the despicable act in turns.
After the act, they left the man who was walking from Kahethu shopping centre lying on the ground helpless. Following the beastly incident, two suspects Bernard Kamande, 25 and Erick Kimani, 21 who were positively identified by the victim have been arrested.