Driver Robbed Of Sh5 Million Lorry After Man Posing As Speaker Moses Wetangula’s Bodyguard Lure Him To Gilgil

GILGIL Kenya May 9 -A gang including a client posing as the bodyguard of the Speaker of National Assembly Moses Wetangula lured a driver from Nairobi to Gilgil where they robbed him on a lorry and other personal effects.
Joseph Waithaka and Peter Mwai, both employees of Wakape Parcels Company Limited reported that on May 8 at around 2pm they received a call from an unknown client who claimed he wanted a lorry to transport water pipes from Gilgil to Bungoma.
He later introduced himself as Speaker Wetangula’s bodyguard and said he would send a woman to accompany them to Gilgil as he was engaged in official duties.
They two, accompanied by the woman left Nairobi in one of the company’s lorry, an Isuzu FRR.
On reaching Gilgil at around 9pm, the woman requested them to stop and she alighted before she was joined by two men.
She told the driver that one of the men was to direct them to where the pipes were while the other man was to accompany them to Bungoma.
They drove towards Old Nairobi road into deep thicket where they found three other men who ordered them to alight and took control of the vehicle.
Two of the men and the woman drove away towards Nairobi-Nakuru highway while the other three men held the driver and his turn boy hostage.
They tied them on both hands and legs and kept them in the thicket until morning when they escaped after robbing them their mobile phones.
The victims later they managed to find their way out of the thicket and reported the matter at Gilgil police station.