The DCI has stated that they are now targeting civilians who buy electronics from unauthorized vendors who mainly deal with quick sell of contrabands and stolen properties.In a statement on yester evening, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations warned Kenyans against purchasing laptops, mobile phones and TV sets from traders who lack requisite trade documents, including licenses, permits and other local and national approvals.According to DCI, the stolen electronic gadgets get rebranded and repackaged using polythene bags before reselling them as new devices.
In August, police officers in Nairobi recovered 254 laptops believed to have been stolen from a house in Kilimani, Nairobi.
Last week, a local company published in the dailies serial numbers of more than 1000 laptops it claimed had been stolen from the Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Nairobi, urging Kenyans not to buy the said gadgets.
According to the DCI, traders without proper premises usually buy the devices from ‘‘armed gangsters who have violently robbed innocent citizens’’ and maimed or killed them.
It’s risky and dangerous to buy any electronic device from suspicious outlets,’’ DCI said in statement on Twitter.
According to DCI, stoneheaded Kenyans who defy these orders will face serious consequences.
‘‘Being found with suspected stolen property, you suffer immediate consequences of the actual criminal, which may escalate to a death sentence,’’ the DCI warned in the strong statement.
‘‘When [we] investigate (forensically) and find you in possession of such said devices, by the time it is established that you were not involved in the crime, you may have suffered immensely,’’ the statement said.
Take for instance, in August last year, detectives discovered in Nairobi a cache of 700 laptops that were reportedly stolen from the Office of the Deputy President William Ruto. Seven suspects were arrested in the dawn raid.
The laptops, valued at Sh320 million, had fraudulently been obtained from businessman Stephen Musyoka.
Kenya’s anti-crime watchdogs and vicious anti-graft sleuths from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations have raided Plan 254 Club in Kilimani, Nairobi.
According to preliminary reports from media sources speaking to the DCI, the raid found fake $1 M, 147 fake gold bars and the sleuths also nabbed flamboyant personality Stephen Mark Oduk, the owner of the club and is currently being held at the Parklands Police Station.
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A raid conducted at Plan 254 Club on Nyangumi Road also unearthed 3000 black U.S. dollars. The black notes were in denominations of $100 and were discovered alongside four portable safes that were locked.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Oduk is set to be arraigned on Thursday.
Early this month, police arrested a man with fake currencies worth Ksh.200million in Kileleshwa. According to the DCI, Bobby Kariuki, 27, was found with fake U.S. dollars, Euros and Pounds.
And on May 20 this year, detectives probing a fake gold scam raided a residential area in Riara where they discovered a smelting centre. DCI George Kinoti revealed that once melted into ingots, the metal with insignificant gold content was being used to lure unsuspecting businessmen.
He said they have solid leads on suspects involved in the fake gold racket in Kilimani, some of whom are influential businessmen, lawyers, and judicial officers.
The former Nairobi County governor Evans Kidero is a lonely man. The Former CEO of the Kenyan capital has lost almost all friends his since the law caught up with him.
Kidero while in office was a socially accepted man, he was among a few governors who were generally accepted by both the ruling and opposition political sides. In the few times he appeared in court as a governor, huge crowds followed, chanting his name and offering him company and comfort in those courtrooms.
Things have however changed. Soon after leaving office and serious charges of graft and conspiring to commit fraud coming up, the pharmacist social circle started shrinking.
Politicians who used to be his shadow has since vanished, maybe because the bright old days are now behind the man who rose from the slums to become one of the most admired chief executives in the country.
He is now often seen alone at golf courts. In his last appearance in court, He was accompanied by his lawyer only.
“If you sit here with us for an hour or so and see him come in, you will see some of his friends run away or make themselves busy just to avoid him,” one of Kidero’s friend told Nation
Since his embarrassing arrest at Muthaiga golf club on August 8th, 2018, all his golf buddies have deserted him.
Today, the body of tycoon Tob Cohen,71, was found in a manhole at his Kitisuru home in Nairobi, DCI George Kinoti has confirmed.
Kinoti said the body was discovered on today, Friday afternoon, a day after the tycoon’s wife Sarah Wairimu was presented in court on a murder charge, but she did not take a plea after the court ordered a mental assessment.
“The body has been found in what we initially thought to be septic tank at his home but we later realized it was an underground water tank,” Kinoti told the source from the scene of crime, where he was accompanied by detectives from the DCI’s Homicide Department.
He told journalists at the scene that, “the body has been positively identified by family members and it is confirmed that it is Cohen, these people are absolutely heartless. Cohen was murdered in his own residence. It is very unfortunate, but we have the suspects in custody.”
Detectives said the body had been blindfolded and wrapped in a blue blanket, with both hands tied, suggesting he may have been tortured to death, according to detectives handling the case.
Kinoti told journalists more suspects will be taken in, “we have two suspects in custody already, and we are looking for more.”
As soon as the body was discovered, the murder suspect Wairimu was taken to the home by police and her lawyer Philip Murgor called, but he has protested, accusing police of fixing his client.
Cohen, a celebrated golf tournament organizer, was reported missing two months ago, and his wife was arrested and detained until Thursday when the prosecution told the court that they had evidence to charge her with the murder.
Cohen is a former Chief Executive Officer of Dutch conglomerate Philips East Africa who has lived in Kenya for many years.
Justice Charles Kariuki directed Wairimu’s state of mind to be examined and the report tabled in court Monday when the case will be mentioned.
Wairimu’s lawyer, Murgor, who was angered by the decision to defer plea yet his client had been in custody for 16 days, was allowed to be present during the examination after he made damning allegations that one of the officers probing the murder is “sexually harassing her”.
Prosecutor Catherine Mwaniki told the court that investigations were still on and there was need to put some witnesses under protection before evidence in their possession can be furnished to the defense team.
An attempt by Murgor to object the mental examination and seek Wairimu’s release on bail pending charges was thwarted after Justice Kariuki told him “I am not here to listen to those applications. Make them on Monday before the head of the criminal division Justice Jessie Lesiit.”
According to a charge sheet filed in court, “Sarah Wairimu Kamotho on the night of 19 and 20 July jointly with others not before court murdered Tob Chichou Cohen.”
When Wairimu was arrested two weeks ago, Kinoti said, “She is the prime suspect and that is why she was arrested.”
“We suspect he may have been killed,” he said.
In previous interrogations with police, Wairimu is reported to have told investigators that Cohen was last seen on July 20, when he left their Kitisuru home in Nairobi, and has never been seen again.
The Daily Nation, quoting a letter she is said to have written to the Dutch Embassy, said she complained that “Tob has depression and mental condition he won’t address for personal reasons and this has (been) and is causing a lot of problems.”
“He has become impossible to live with, even though we try. The family has stepped aside due to the abusive and vindictive nature of his condition,” she wrote, in the letter to the Dutch Embassy that was seen by the daily that first reported the story.
The Dutch embassy in Nairobi never replied to letters from Wairimu.
On Monday this week, Directorate of Criminal Investigations sent a formal request for pieces of information and documentation that will aide in the Probe into previous mismanagement of formerly Pride of Africa- Kenya Airways.
According to Kenya Airways, popularly known as KQ, the DCI’s probe will focus on the procurement of services for the maintenance repair and overhaul of aircraft engines at the national carrier.
KQ which hires third party firms to carry out maintenance said they welcome the investigations and are engaging with the DCI team to provide necessary support and information.
“This is part of our overall strategy to ensure transparency and integrity in all our procurement processes and operations,” Kenya Airways corporate communications said in a notice.
DCI has not made the details of investigations open for perusal which makes it almost impossible currently to know which firms and individuals are being targeted under the commenced probe.
However last week, reports emerged that former KQ chief executive Titus Naikuni was also under probe over Sh100 billion lost between 2003 and 2014. Detectives are also said to be probing the financial period between 2017/8 and 2018/9 inquiring about members of the procurement and tender committee for the same period.
DCI communicated to the media through a letter stating that the probe will review everything from procurement and budget plans, tender advertisement/request for proposal, list of prequalified suppliers and tender documents for potential bidders.
Sebastian Mikosz KQ CEO and managing director stated that the loss-making airline was no longer interested in pushing to run Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The airline has since withdrawn the initially proposed Privately Initiated Investment Proposal (PIIP).
The proposal fell through when it reached Parliament that instead recommended the establishment of an Aviation Holding Company to consolidate the country’s aviation assets, including the nationalization of KQ.
“KQ’s board and management believe that the PIIP has catalyzed important discourse about the future of Kenya’s civil aviation, which is now being led by the Government of Kenya. Kenya Airways looks forward to continued collaboration with all involved stakeholders of the process,” said Mikosz.
VC Mary Walingo is now the most wanted lady on the DCI corruption watch list after Citizen TV exposed rampant corruption that had been going on at Maasai Mara University.
The anti-graft watchdog has sent couple of detectives to Maasai Mara university to unearth what the local media house might have left out in the expose that aired over a few days ago dubbed #MaraHeist.
The exposé dubbed, The Mara Heist, implicated the institution’s vice-chancellor, Prof. Mary Walingo, as the alleged orchestrator of the entire operation.
According to Citizen TV anchor, Hassan Mugambi, who was dispatched by the station to cover the institution after the investigative report aired on Sunday night, DCI detectives had been dispatched to the institution.
Mugambi further disclosed that they were in the process of investigating the allegations.
DCI headquarters. Detectives from the institution rushed to Maasai Mara University for investigations after Citizen TV exposed wanton graft at the institution.
“DCI officer had already arrived at this University and were carrying out investigations and talking to some of the institution’s workers as well as students in order to get conclusive information,” reported Mugambi.
Sampling a few sentiments from Maasai Mara students, the journalist noted that they were disappointed with the revelations explaining that the institution is usually tough when demanding fees from them.
Spencer Sankale, who had served as the acting finance officer before his demotion in August 2017, was one of the four individuals who laid bare the wanton corruption at the public university.
He made recordings of illegal cash transactions he was allegedly instructed to make by the school’s Vice-Chancellor (VC).
There was an instance in which Sankale received an instruction demanding two bundles and a half of grass which represented Ksh 250,000.
Barely a day after an exposé by Royal Media owned Citizen TV on massive misappropriation of funds at Maasai Mara University, a picture of Noor Abdi’s palatial home has surfaced. Mr Noor Abdi is the driver to corrupt Maasai Mara Vice Chancellor Mary Walingo.
The ongoing demonetization of the old a thousand notes has attracted the attention of the Crime busters at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations who have now focused their keen eye and investigating cases of fishy cash transactions that have been flagged by banks.
Central Bank Governor Patrick Njoroge says some of those cases are of people who wanted to change over Sh5 million to new currency notes.
“We have shared the information we have gathered so far with the DCI for further investigations. Our role as the regulator is to work the investigating agencies to ensure that we achieve our goal,” Dr. Njoroge said.
CBK Chair stated that the banks have collected more than 100 million pieces of old Sh1,000 notes out 217 million pieces that were in circulation when the demonetization started and the investigations on people holding illicit money would continue even after the old notes are phased out from September 30.
“We expect to collect more notes as the deadline nears because most people like doing things the last minute,” CBK Chair said while on a media interview.
Dr. Njoroge, however, ruled out 100 percent success of the demonetization, saying some have of the cartels have laundered the illicit proceeds in properties in the country and abroad.
CBK caught the country by surprise on Madaraka Day when it announced that it was withdrawing the Sh1,000 notes in a bid to counter counterfeits, corruption and money laundering.
During demonetization, individuals exchanging less than Sh1 million of the old notes and non-account holders were instructed to exchange them through the currency centers, CBK branches, and commercial banks. Bank customers and non-account holders having an excess of Sh5 million are required to get Central Bank’s approval.
The old generation Sh1,000 banknotes will be worthless papers from October 1, 2019. CBK has said it is working with forex bureaus, payment service providers, money remittance providers, investigative agencies and other financial service providers to ensure all due procedures are followed.
Kenya is not the only State that has changed their currency, India scrapped 500 and 1000-rupee banknotes in 2016 to flush out tax evaders a move that flopped as it did not achieve the desired goal as 99 percent of the money still got back into the system.
Africa’s self declared most debt-ridden country, Nigeria, introduced a new currency and banned the old notes in 1984, under the Muhammadu Buhari government. But this caused chaos and was blamed for the inflation that followed and crashed the economy.
Ghana also attempted a similar move in 1982 when it ditched its 50 cedis note to deal with rampant tax evasion and empty excess liquidity. It had the downside of fuelling a currency black market.
North Korea tried this in 2010 but ended up leaving citizens with no food and shelter after Kim-Jong ll knocked off two zeros from the face value of the old currency in order to kick out the black market.
There have been at least five success stories where the exercise worked for the economy and resulted in the intended outcomes.
These include Pakistan (2016), the UK (2002), Australia (1996), and the EU (2002). Zimbabwe attempted in 2015 and succeeded having gone for the US dollar.
Things are escalating from bad to worse for Kiambu Governor
Ferdinand Waititu, who, if everything goes as it is now, might be forced out of office.
Waititu, who’s whereabouts is currently unknown, has vanished together with his family after DPP Haji ordered for their immediate arrest and arraigned in court on several corruption and fraud charges.
Haji’s orders followed Thursday’s ruling by Justice Mumbi Ngugi who ruled that Governors charged with corruption should stay away from office and their roles and duties be discharged by their deputies until their innocence is proven.
The war on corruption seem to have been taken seriously and the Judiciary, which had been complaining of case interference from Executive and other arms of government, given chance to prove their prowess and independence to clean the country’s biggest mess.
DPP Haji on Friday stated that Waititu and other corrupt county officials will face charges of irregular award of tenders worth Sh588 million and embezzlement of public funds.
Amongst those of DPP’s radar with their arrest warrant out already include Governor Waititu’s wife Susan Wangari Ndung’u, director Bienvenue Delta Hotel, Lucas Wahinya the Chief Officer roads of Kiambu County and evaluation committee members Zakary Mbugua, Joyce Musyoka, Simon Kang’ethe, Anselm Wanjiku and Samuel Mugo.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has been investigating allegations of irregular procurement of a tender for the upgrading of various gravel roads to bituminous surface in the county,
According to EACC investigations, Waititu and his accomplices awarded M/s Testimony Enterprises Ltd irregular tenders worth Sh588 million 2017/2018 financial year.
EACC alleges that the directors of M/s Testimony Enterprises, who have already pocketed 147.3million, are close associates of the Governor Waititu and his family.
“I find that the award of the contract for Ksh.588,198,328.20 in respect to tender No.CGK/RTPW&U/142/2017-2018- for the upgrading of various gravel roads to Bitumen surface in Thika, Limuru, Gatundu North, Juja and Ruiru sub-counties was skewed in favour of M/s Testimony Enterprises Ltd, and the county government officials were culpable,” reads part of DPP’s statement.
“The directors of M/s Testimony Enterprises Ltd were close associates of Ferdinand Ndung’u Waititu Babayao, the Governor of Kiambu County. The total amount of Ksh.147,274,055.39 have so far been irregularly paid to Testimony Enterprises Ltd in relation to the subject tender,” DPP adds.
DPP Haji stated that he has independently reviewed the evidence in the inquiry file and the report and he’s satisfied that there is ‘more than sufficient evidence’ to sustain charges against Waititu and the other named suspects.
DPP and EACC are set to charge Waititu, his family and co-accused with conflict of interest, abuse of office, wilful failure to comply with the law on procurement, engaging in fraudulent practices, fraudulent acquisition of property, and money laundering.
DPP’s arrest orders comes at a time when Mr Waititu had filed an application at the high court seeking to bar his arrest and possible prosecution.
Waititu is also on EACC’s radar over alleged questionable expenditure for, among other things, the controversial Kaa Sober programme that was valued at 2million daily contrary to the Public Finance Management Act.
Waititu, just as any other corrupt leader, apparently majority of them are allied to Tangatanga movement, tenure is inevitably hitting the dead end.
The Judiciary wants to prove a point and unluckily, Tangatanga folks are on the frying pan after allegedly frying wananchi.
Chief Justice Maraga has also added his weight and Waititu just as his tangatanga corrupt folks are, without doubt, going to feel his wrath.
Early July, Chief Justice Maraga suspended Kiambu Principal Magistrate Bryan Khaemba, who had given Governor Ferdinand Waititu an anticipatory bail while on his sick leave.
Chief Justice David Maraga stated In the letter dated June 13 that Khaemba’s actions amount to gross misconduct contrary to the Human Resource Policies and Procedures Manual.
“He sneaked to the court and made the ruling on Waititu’s matter MISC. CR APP. No 222 of 2019 yet it had not been allocated or listed to him.” CJ Maraga stated.
“In view of the above, you (Khaemba) are hereby required to show cause why disciplinary action should not be taken against you for the offence,” reads part of CJ Maraga’s letter.
I don’t know how Tangatanga members chose themselves but the entire team from their leader DP Ruto, to the lowest ranks such as personal guards, drivers and even social media influencers are directly or indirectly involved in a fraud, corrupt, civil and legal charges or battle.
Early this year, Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro, an ardent supporter of the DP, alleged that the Government was planning to use the Police and KRA to frustrate those allied to Team Tangatanga. I wonder why and what is he doing that’s against the law?
Kandara MP Alice Wahome told media that the State has revived her 2012 civil suit and the DCI ‘given’ a go ahead to prosecute her in a matter she stated it has nothing to do with nor under jurisdiction of theDCI.
I don’t know why team Tangatanga believes that all leaders supporting the DP are being targeted by the State, funny enough, in which they are part and parcel of.
According to them the system has changed tack and is targeting the Dr Ruto’s supporters in what they foolishly believe it’s plans to depict Ruto as a failed and corrupt politician. Well isn’t he?
And just on more thing, supporting William Ruto’s political ambition is not, according to the laws governing our country, illegal and does not necessarily mean you’re corrupt.
So for those saying they’re being attacked rather targeted by State entities should tell us what else are they doing apart from just ‘supporting’ the Hustler who lives in and almost owns the entire Nairobi.
As for Babayao, how he gets out of this murk is only a matter of watch and see and if DPP’s recent assertions is anything to go by, he’s stuck and fixed. Who’s the Deputy Governor for Kiambu? That’s the man now to watch.
Treasury Cabinet secretary Henry Rotich has been left to fry alone after DPP Hajji and DCI director Kinoti turned their ‘guns’ on him.
According to sources speaking to media, Rotich had foreseen his arrest, prosecution and sacking from the Cabinet almost three months ago.
Sources close to Rotich told media that people close to him, Rotich, who are senior officials in government had stopped picking his calls.
Rotich is reported to have confided in his friends and close business allies that he felt the government had thrown him under the bus and his Seniors left him to fry alone.
According to sources speaking to local media said that Rotich must have been aware that something bad was coming up because he told us that his seniors had stopped responding to his text messages after the saga of the dams broke out.
Rotich told his friends that he felt frustrated and betrayed according to a source.
“We could tell that he was a disturbed man when he told us that in the past his messages were promptly responded to. It was like he was telling us that he had been left on his own,” Said a source speaking to Media.
Rotich goose started cooking early this year when he was summoned to the DCI headquarters for questioning over the dams scandal.
CS Rotich was first questioned by Police on 18th February this year. He was later to make four more visits to the DCI as investigations progressed.
Rotich became a close friend with President Uhuru Kenyatta after working together at Treasury when President Uhuru was Finance minister under Retired President Mwai Kibaki’s reign.
When Treasury CS was sucked into the dams scandal, their close ties with Head of State vaporised and since then, President Uhuru vowed that all top government officials implicated in corruption will carry their own cross.
Rotich was arrested yesterday almost immediately after the DCI director George Kinoti and Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji jetted in from their two-week visit in Italy.
Kinoti and Hajji left for Italy on July 9 to meet government officials and the Italian government-owned insurer, Service Assicurnativi Dei Commercio Estero (SACE), which was paid Sh11.1 billion as insurance premium for a loan to build the two dams.
“The investigations established that government officials flouted all procurement rules and abused their oath of office to ensure the scheme went through,” DPP Haji said in a press briefing.
According to DPP Hajji, government officials went ahead to award the contracts to CMC Di Ravenna of Italy to run concurrently while aware that the firm was, at the time of award, straining and getting into voluntary liquidation back in Italy.
The DCI director Kinoti had also asked CS Rotich about the missing National Environment Management Authority reports and lack of public participation in the Dam projects.
According to records, a leading supermarket was paid Sh4 million for supplying pillows and bedsheets while a food and wine company based in Nairobi’s Lavington was paid Sh15 million for supplying food and wines to CMC.
Car hire services costed Sh7 million while Sh18 million was used for aerial survey services and another company supplied alleged foodstuff worth Sh10.2 million.
Another company was paid 6million to supply generators while another one was paid Sh19 million for physical studies.
The records further indicate that another company was paid 13 million for provision of air tickets and yet another got 6 million for generators.
The events in Monica Kimani murder case have taken another twist with the involvement of President Uhuru’s cousin John ‘MO’ Muhoho, a week before the Court set date for trial.
Brian kasaine’s statement has revealed details showing why police believe that Joseph ‘Jowie’ Kuria and his then-fiancee, TV Journalist Jacque Maribe murdered Monica.
Kasaine had been arrested and then released in connection with the murder, recorded his statement with the DCI giving out further detailed activities of Jowie on the night of the killing happened and the following day.
DCI’s lead investigator Maxwell Otieno, statement has outlined events that could have led to the murder of Monica Kimani.
“Our investigations established that both the accused persons were directly responsible for the death of the deceased Monica Nyawira,” reads the conclusion of his statement.
The two statements on our desk are part of the Prosecution documents that will be used on Tuesday’s trial.
Monica Nyawira Kimani was murdered in her apartment on the night of September 19, 2018.
Kasaine’s Statement with the police indicates that he, Kasaine, had given Jowie the gun because he knew him as an undercover cop.
The said gun is the one that Jowie shot himself with.
Kasaine narrated the happenings of September 20, 2018, the day the police believe Jowie tried to destroy evidence.
Kasaine told the Police that he received a WhatsApp call from Jowie at around 2am seeking to know if he had “paraffin or anything flammable or air freshener in the house.”
“I got surprised at such request of these items by himat such late hour,” Kasaine’s statement reads.
Kasaine also told the Police that he met Jowie at 3pm on the very day, at Maribe’s House.
“I wanted to borrow their car keys so that I could use it to go and pick up my son from school. He was wearing a white vest, grey sweat pants. He was in deep thought and distracted,” Reads Kasaine’s statement.
Kasaine said he “jokingly” asked Jowie why he was looking for paraffin in the middle of the night.
“He replied, ‘tulikuwa job fulani na Mo-Muhoho na nikama alidunga mtu kisu’ (I was with Mo-Muhoho yesterday for an assignment and he stabbed somebody,” Reads Kasaine’s statement.
“When Jowie told me as follows, ‘tulikuwa job Fulani na Mo-Muhoho na nikama alidunga mtu kisu’ – he was referring to John Muhoho who is a close friend of his,” Kasaine clarified to the Police.
John Muhoho is the son of former KAA chairman and Mama Ngina’s brother George Muhoho.
John Muhoho, President Uhuru’s cousin has been a very close and social friend to both Jowie and Maribe
These photos on Instagram proofs right the statement.
Instagram post of a Picture of John Mo, Jowie and Maribe courtesy of Urbannews254/pageA file photo of John Muhoho and Jacqueline Maribe
John Muhoho is not only an Instagram rich kid but also a very private member of the wider Kenyatta family that had maintained a clean on and offline existence till this Statement surfaced.
John Muhoho is alleged to have spent sh1.6 million at the 1824 launch party.
The two, John and Maribe, have also been spotted in all the major Jubilee party rallies
Louis Mdudu selfie with Maribe and Muhoho
Jowie, John and Maribe have been close friends enough to an extent that Muhoho has been to couple of Maribe’s birthday parties and other celebrations.
John Mo with Jacque Maribe on her last birthday Photo/Courtesy/
John Muhoho and Maribe pictured post courtesy of Instagram
Kasaine told the Police that Jowie told him that he wanted to burn some stuff and had used some air freshener “while pointing towards the empty plot across their house.”
DCI’s lead investigator Maxwell Otieno gave 12 reasons why he concludes that Jowie was directly involved in the murder.
Mr Otieno also highlighted five reasons on why Maribe should be charged.
According to DCI’s Otieno reveals that tests by the Government Chemist in a report reference A 199/2018 dated December 13, 2018, confirmed that DNA profile generated from a short Jowie wore on the day of the murder marched that generated from Monica’s blood sample.
“After the commission of the crime, the accused person burnt the clothes he was wearing at the scene of crime at the second accused residence in her presence,” Reads part of Otieno’s statement.
Daboul Walid and Owen Omondi
Who are both witnesses in the case placed Jowie in Monica’s house and two of them said they left Jowie in the house on that day.
Another revelation in the case has that Jowie changed into a different set of clothes before he went to see Monica in her house.
“The accused changed and dressed in a white kanzu, grey
coat and red cap in the immediate presence of Jennings Olando (a Recce squad officer who also had been arrested during investigations). These were the same clothes that he was putting on while at the residence of the deceased on a fateful day as confirmed by Owen, Walid and guards at the Lamuria gardens apartments,” Otieno’s statement reads.
Jowie was in the same red cap at Club 40 Forty on the night of the murder and witnesses say he had the same red cap at Monica’s house.
“After the commission of the crime, the accused person burnt the clothes he was wearing at the scene of crime at the second accused residence in her presence. “ Said DCI detective Maxwell Otieno.
Kasaine said that Monica introduced Jowie to Walid and Owen as someone who works with the Interpol when they sat in her house.
He indicates that Jowie at one time commented on the live news that “They (Interpol) him included had arrested 19 terrorists in Lamu who were to be ferried to Nairobi for deportation.”
Investigations revealed that Jowie claimed to be wearing a kanzu to enable him “blend with the Somali community since he alleged that he resides in Eastleigh.”
“When Owen said that he desired a firearm for protection purposes, the 1st accused offered that he was going to assist him to acquire one either through the legal or illegal process,” Otieno’s statement says.
“Owen confirmed that while in the deceased house, Jowie received several phone calls whereby he would move aside and speak in coded language over the phone.”
Otieno’s statement reveals that a gardener accessed Monica’s house through a window and found her in a bathtub.
The Gardener got out and informed Monica’s brother who was waiting outside her house and this is when they broke the door before calling the Police.
The Police believed that Jowie murdered Monica because he had informed Jennings of who he was going to see.
“He informed Jennings Olando whom he was with that he was going to visit a lady friend who had just arrived from South Sudan,” Otieno’s statement reads.
Otieno’s Statement says that on September 19, 2018, Monica flew from Juba and landed at JKIA at around 5.30pm.
Investigations into the murder have revealed that Maribe’s car was at the scene of the crime and she was seen in it on the later that very night.
“The accused person witnessed the burning of the clothes by the first accused on the night of the incident near her residence,” This is the second supporting evidence.
Maribe’s phone was also within the same area of the incident and before being switched off at about 10.25pm and switched on at around 9:52 am the same day.
The Police autopsy records indicate that Monica died at around the same time Maribe’s phone went off.
“Considering the above, it is evident that the accused persons jointly murdered the deceased,” Otieno’s statement reads.
Maribe’s contradicting statements on how Jowie had sustained his gunshot injury also depicts her as “dishonest”
Her alibis on the murder date are also not believable.
Maribe was also spotted with Jowie at Club 40 Forty almost immediately after the murder and was spotted too near the scene of the crime.
Kasaine also narrated the events of the night of September 21, 2018, when he found Jowie bleeding at his gate.
“He was shouting at his fiancee Jacqueline Maribe immediately he saw her there saying ‘you want me out of your house, it is fine, bury me in Lang’ata’ then went quiet. Jacqueline didn’t answer him,” reads Kasaine’s statement.
Kasaine told the Police that Maribe told him that Jowie shot himself when he, Jowie, told Kasaine to secure the weapon.
According to Kasaine, Jowie couldn’t be admitted to Lang’ata Hospital and Nairobi West Hospital without a deposit of Sh50,000.
Jowie passed by the Lang’ata police station the following evening and reported the matter as a shooting incident then later went to Lang’ata Hospital for gun wound dressing.
Kasaine said that Jowie had been advised to do so by someone he, Jowie, didn’t name.
Barclay’s Bank, Kenya branches, lost a combined sum of sh11 Miillion over Easter this year.
Polish cyber security firm, OnNet Services had warned Barclay’s Kenya via a tweet published on 17th of April, stating that ‘SILENTCARDS’ group of hackers were planning to hack into their ATMs.
OnNet services had also published on their blog a fortnight ago that they believe the hacking threat from SilentCards is still active in many other institutions.
OnNet Service Chief Technician and Innovator Stephanie Neringa told the investigators of this site that they are creating a global community awareness to minimize the loss of both finances and most important, the customers of local financial institutions.
Stephen said their are having a hard time to accomplish their goals because most of our banks have poor or backdoor security loopholes that make them easy targets from SilentCards.
OnNet Services Group innovator also said they have server information used by SilentCards hackers to loot over sh 450Million from a local Bank.
Our efforts to get the details or the name of the Bank were fruitless due to nonexisting tech advisory contract between the Bank and OnNet Services.
This is not the first time our local banking sector is losing billions of money to group(s) of hackers.
March last year, National Bank of Kenya confirmed to have been successfully hacked. The hackers went away with key security details and a loss of over sh 29 million.
Microsoft’s Cloud chief strategist Rudiger Dorn, said that cyber criminals looted over 800 million dollars globally in the past year.
Earlier this year, CBK and Visa held a successful cyber security workshop that exposed how rogue bank officers collude with hackers swindle illiterate customers and ATM induced cash-outs.
Visa sub-Saharan Africa Head of Risk and management Bevan Smith said hacker get hold of genuine cards that give them quick and easy backdoor access into banking system.
Increased cyber threats prompted CBK to introduce cyber security guidance and guidelines in July 2017.
Local Banks were required to file, compiled annual reports to CBK on their cyber security system and how they are curbing the threats facing their systems.
These security guidelines were also imposed on mobile money transfer networks. With Safaricom’s M Pesa services being on top, they are legally required to notify CBK of any cyber security glitches within a period of 24 hours.
Back to the elephant in the house, SilentsCards, are local Cyber criminals members of what was formally known as Forkbombo.
These cyber crooks were named Forkbombo in 2016 by government cyber watchdogs because they used [email protected] to electronically get hold of keyloggers data.
Kenya Revenue Authority, Banking Fraud Unit and Cyber Crime Unit of the DCI formally CID dismantled Forkbombo after the criminals 2 years of contacting cyber crime.
In 2017, The DCI arrested
Calvin Otieno Ogalo, a 35 year old former police officer and bank employee who was said to be the Forkbombo leader.
Calvin Otieno was arrested alongside minor members and two American citizens. They were both charged and the two Americans deported.
The cybercrime department of DCI said that Kenya lost over sh 17 Billions to hackers in 2016-2017.
Last year, DCI detectives said that majority of cyber criminals in their custody had deep international connections with local and international Politicians.
This international deep political connections of the hackers saw Kenya ranked 69 out of 127 most vulnerable countries by the Global Threat Index.
OnNet services says that SilentCards regrouped in 2017 after obtaining the original keyloggers data from remaining members of forkbombo.
“The latest code used in several banks after reversing has the main Def as OnKeyBoardEvent() and the files are usually saved as tech_kg.py,’’ OnNet Chief said.
According to OnNet services, Silentcards attackers use these three passwords as their first attempts to enter into banking systems;
a) admin123
b) secret123
c) welcome1
Further investigations from OnNet indicate that Silentcards
attacks copy and evaluate audit information from main data servers.
OnNet service says that Forkbombo used to have money mules whereas SilentCards uses a well connected web of foreigners who get quick international backdoor wired transactions that later withdraw in a coordinated plan.
Silentcards hackers are specialized in Python Scripts and also use advanced hacking
tools like Empire, Metasploit, DeathStar, Bloodhound, CrackMapExec, Aesshell, XmultiShell, CHAOS and Katoolin.
OnNet investigators said that they are following up a tip that GrapZone international hackers are now working with Silentcards to fully regroup Forkbombo and their viscous cyber attacks.
So many questions are arising from governments huduma namba initiative. With some people saying the state institutions are demanding the namba to give you services.
On the forefront of the accusations was the Directorate of Criminal Investigations(DCI).
People had alleged that the DCI officers are demanding for Huduma namba for applications and renewal of Certificates of good conduct.
The DCI refuted the allegations and termed the claims as false.
They have clarified that its officers are not demanding from anyone Huduma Namba in exchange for the more important government service.
The DCI also urged Kenyans not to fall to claims it will only serve those who have registered for huduma namba.
The DCI tweeted this on their official twitter page:
They also went ahead and encouraged people to report any misleading material they spot on any online platforms.
The tweet came hours after reports emerged online From a Kenyan on Twitter under the username [@m_mugo88] alleging that there was no services for those who haven’t registered for Huduma Namba.
