Four DCI Detectives Arrested for Abducting a Man, Robbing Him of over Sh300,000

Four officers attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) were on Friday arrested for allegedly abducting a man and forcefully obtaining over Sh300,000 from him.  

Tom Otieno, Antony Mwanza, Cornelius Wambua, and Kennedy Odero are said to have accosted the victim on February 6th at the NextGen Mall in Nairobi at around noon.

They forcibly bundled him into a Subaru car as he waited for a taxi along Mombasa Road, according to the DCI.  

While in the vehicle, in-charge Corporal Tom Otieno forcefully transferred Sh40,000 from the victim’s MPesa account to his Mpesa account before the suspects proceeded to his apartment where they took a further USD$2,400 (Sh272,260) and later dumped him at a Choma zone located at Total petrol station along Mombasa Road.

The victim went to report the matter at Akira police station only to find the vehicle used to kidnap him at the premises. He then rushed to the Serious Crimes Unit at the DCI’s headquarters where he filed a report.

Investigations were launched immediately and serious crimes detectives established that the vehicle indeed belonged to DCI Lang’ata. 

The victim positively identified the four officers in an identification parade conducted at the DCI headquarters on Friday evening.

“Any Kenyan who may have unfortunately suffered in the hands of the four is urged to immediately report at the Serious Crimes Unit headquarters for action,” the DCI said.