A 32-year old man who has been posing as a magistrate and conning Nakuru residents money has been arrested by detectives.
Victor Kiprono Ng’eno was arrested following a police operation that was conducted on Saturday October 9.
Fake employment letters from the Judicial Service Commission were also recovered.
This comes after locals complained about Ng’eno last year.
It is alleged that the suspect acted as a magistrate and even promised to intervene in some crucial cases once a deposit was made.
According to the County Criminal Investigations Officer Anthony Sunguti, the suspect has been on the run for some time.
Sunguti said that the suspected had a tendency of duping unsuspecting Kenyans by purporting to be a judicial officer in Nakuru.
“We have arrested the suspect and he is in custody awaiting to be arraigned in court on Tuesday,” Sunguti said.
The suspect is claimed to have falsely obtained Ksh1.6 million from Samuel Soi on different dates between March 15, 2018 and December 31, 2019.
The police say that he pretended to be a relative of former Energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter and was in a position to help Soi secure a job at the Kenya Pipeline Nakuru branch.
He is also said to have obtained Ksh100,000 from Soi to expedite a civil case lodged at Nakuru Law Courts.
According to the complainant’s lawyer Kipkoech Ng’etich, the arrest of the suspect was long overdue saying he has evaded law enforcement for a while.
Ng’etich who is also acting for the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and the Judiciary said the suspect was not on the record of judicial officers in the country.
He also warned those pretending to be judicial officers saying that they will be arrested and charged.
“Your days are numbered, you will be arrested and charged, the suspect had also claimed he was employing court clerks,” Ng’etich said.
It is also alleged that the suspect who had duped a number of Kenyansused to walk around with a toy gun.
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