NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 7 – Police have been allowed to detain a 24-year-old man of Somalia nationality for 14 days to allow invesigations to be completed after it was established that he used forged documents to get Kenyan identity cards.
This is after Abdihakim Saidi Jama was presented to the Makadara Law Courts following his arrest where it was found that the birth certificate he used to get his identity card was fraudulently obtained.
He was aso found to have contravened section 53 of the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act ater being accused of being in Kenya unlawfully.
In an affidavit, Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detecives stated that Jama had obtained his ID card in Isiolo yet he is not a Kenyan national.
According to investigations, the entry number of the birth certificate that Jama had used in getting his ID and passport belonged to one Anne Gatwiri Kithure.
Makadara senior principal magistrate Hellen Onkwani ordered the man be detained in police cells for 14 days pending investigations.
Police plan to pursue all those who helped him get the documents.
The issue, according to police, has opened many fronts of investigations.
The drama came out following a feud between Jama and one Ayni Hussein Muhamud, who had accused him of trying to steal her business in Eastleigh.
Ayni is a British national of Somali origin and had employed Jama at her shop who allegedly later tried to lock her out of the same.
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, her world came crashing down when she discovered that her trusted business worker had registered the three shops under his own name, severing their previous communication.
Realizing the gravity of the situation, Ayni sought assistance from the local business community and elders in reclaiming her business, which she had worked hard to build.
After hearing both parties’ arguments, the community and elders decided to divide the three shops between them, insisting that Ayni surrender one of the shops to her business worker, a decision she vehemently opposed.
She told police she had single-handedly stocked the shop, paid rent, and covered other workers’ salaries.
This prompted another round of harassment on the woman who had arrived in Nairobi to pursue the issue as she was once arrested and locked up in police cells.
The matter is separately under probe by the Internal Affairs Unit and Independent Policing Oversight Authority.
Determined to seek justice, Ayni’s legal team filed a formal complaint with the Directorate of Criminal
Investigation (DCI) internal unit, which took over the matter that has now revealed the new developments.
