A Nairobi businessman has been accused of fraud by preying on desperate jobseekers in the city while referencing powerful individuals in the government including President William Ruto’s close aide Farouk Kibet as one of his close connects to win the trust of his victims.
Mr. James Kireru calls himself the Chief Executive officer of FEP holdings company and he boast of having connections with United States of American linked companies.
Kenya Insights investigations shows he uses the company’s name although he left it in 2019 and uses the said purported connections with the US based companies to lure, corner and con innocent citizens who are unaware of his tact.
He immediately blocks the victims and proceed to lure the new targets.
“He has now blocked us, we cannot access him on phone, you can only access him using a different number which he may refuse to receive when contacted,” a male victim told us.
Mr. Kireru is now on the spot for alledgly conning several Kenyans millions of shillings on the ground that he was in a position to help them attend a high level conference in the United States. We have some Mpesa messages to confirm that he received the money and so far the alledged CEO has not respondent to our calls or replied to our messages as we sought clarifications on the matter before publishing
The problem began after Kireru allegedly purported to have gotten an invite from a US firm that allowed him to take some Kenyans to the US for a workshop, read the letter he shared with the complainants in parts.
“This is to officially to invite the following individuals and team to attend my company’s 2024 Elevating The Employee Experience to be held at the Hilton Denver City Centre 1701 California St.Denver ,” read his letter to the victims as its reads in parts.
“I gave him more than Sh 200,000 for the workshop he promised to deliver, each one of us was told to pay Sh50,000. He has conned us a lot of money running to millions, we never knew that this was a fraud, ” said one of the complainant.
She said that Kireru after receiving the said amount does not pick their calls or reply to their messages and has becomes rude and elusive.
“He is a conman, last week he ran away immediately he saw us, we want the government to intervene and get him arrested, we shall be making a formal report to the DCI next week,” she added.
Our investigations has indicated that Mr.Kireru survives on this tricks to make his end meet. He had also written some emails to the complainants purporting to be from the US departments of visa approvals.
“Everything was paid for, he requested that we pay him some cash that was to hasten visa applications which we did, we don’t know whether those emails were from the US various departments of was a Fraud, we want serious investigations into the matter,” another victim added.
He also quotes ministers and other powerful government officials in his baits.
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