Somali National Fraudulently Acquired Kenyan ID Card, Attempted To Dispossess Employer Of Business -DCI

NAIROBI Kenya July 5 -A 24-year-old Somali national has been arrested after he fraudulently acquired Kenyan national ID card which she later used to dispossess her former employer of her business in Eastleigh.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) revealed that Abdihakim Saidi Jama’s purported birth certificate which he used to acquire the national ID actually belonged to a woman.
The probe further revealed that the entry number L0090613/13 in Jama’s birth certificate belonged to Anne Gatwiri Kithure, the DCI said.
According to a report by the National Registration Bureau (NRB), the ID card, number 29651299, was issued by Isiolo NRB office, with a certified copy of the birth certificate showing that Jama’s mother was one Fatuma Mohammed.
Investigations were launched after Ayni Hussein Muhamud, a British national of Somali origin, reported that Jama, who was her employee, tried to steal her business in Eastleigh in 2020.
This was during the Covid-19 pandemic that forced her to be out of the country for long.
The woman told police she sent clothes from London and China to her three shops in Eastleigh as stock, and even had the ability to monitor the business remotely through CCTV.
However, she later discovered that her trusted business worker had registered the three shops under his own name, disregarding their previous communication.
She instead sought assistance from the local business community and elders in reclaiming her business. The community and elders decided to divide the three shops between them, insisting that Ayni surrender one of the shops to her business worker.
She disagreed and decided to come to Kenya only to arrested. She complained and the matter is currently under investigation by the police oversight bodies.
Her legal team then filed a formal complaint with the DCI internal unit, which took over the matter that has now revealed the new developments.
Jama was on July 5 arraigned at Makadara Law Court accused of forgery and being unlawfully in Kenya in contravention of section 53 of the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act.
Makadara senior principal magistrate Hellen Onkwani ordered the man be detained at Muthaiga police station for 14 days as the detectives conclude investigations.
Dozens of investigations by a multi-agency team is already ongoing to nip the scam in the bud.
In one of the cases under investigation, a former administrator from Tana River county and a resident of Eastleigh is said to be helping foreigners acquire national ID cards.
Some security officials have also been accused of colluding with aliens to get into the country and also failing to repatriate foreigners declared by courts as unlawfully present in the country.
On March 30, for example, two Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) officers were arrested for failing to repatriate four Somali nationals who were found to be in the country illegally.