Three Youths Conned Sh1.8M in Fake Police Recruitment

Three Kenyans have been conned Sh1.8 million by a man who said he will secure a job for them in the ongoing police recruitment exercise.

According to a police report filed at the Nyeri Police Station and seen by Nairobi Leo, Dismas Kibungei, aged 25, 28-year-old Felix Kirwa and Jepng'etich Kosgei, aged 20, were defrauded Sh600,000 each by suspects who issued them with fake calling letters to join the Kiganjo Police Training College.

The three, who hail from Nandi, had travelled all the way to Nairobi in the company of their parents to meet the fraudster and then seal the deal.

The group met at Hilton Hotel Nairobi where they paid the amount after which they were issued with documents disguised to be police docket numbers.

The group were assured that they had secured their place in Kiganjo.

The fraudster handed them to another man Martin Nyagah Mbuba who was to guide them further in the fraudulent recruitment exercise.

They boarded a private vehicle en route to Kiganjo to report to the training station.

Upon reaching Karatina they alighted to have lunch at Mathias Supermarket.

It is after they had lunch that the three and their driver Nyaga realized that the vehicle that was carrying them was missing from where it was parked.

Nyaga is said to have told the three that the vehicle was stolen, something that they could not believe.

The three's original KCSE certificates, identity cards and personal items disappeared with the car.

Nyaga is currently in detention assisting with the investigations.