Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested Maroa Sammy Maroa, an economist at the State Department for Cabinet Affairs, in connection with forging a letter purported to have been sanctioned by a senior government official.
In a statement on Wednesday, December 3, DCI said the suspect delivered the fake letter to the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) CEO, forwarding a list of state-recommended candidates for police recruitment.
“Despite being a civil servant employed as an economist at the State Department for Cabinet Affairs, Sammy chose to moonlight as an architect of counterfeit power.
“His latest stunt was the sloppy crafting of a forged letter allegedly sanctioned by a senior government official. Walking in like a man who believed in his own con, he brazenly delivered the letter to the CEO of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC), forwarding a list of “state-recommended candidates” for police recruitment,” read the DCI statement in part.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Sammy is already in suspension after he allegedly forged another letter promoting himself to the rank of director and transferring himself to the State Department for Housing.
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After learning that DCI detectives were after him, the suspect switched off his phone numbers and went into hiding.
Sleuths, however, used intelligence leads and smoked him out of his hideout at the Ngoigwa area within Thika West Sub-county.
“Realising detectives were closing in, he went dark, switching off all his known numbers, envisaging he had slipped off the radar.
“But our crime busters, unamused and undeterred, deployed meticulous intelligence leads, thereby managing to smoke him out of his hideout,” DCI stated.
The suspect was escorted to a police facility, where he is being detained as he awaits legal action.
This comes days after detectives arrested Richard Kirui Bongei, a principal Engineer at the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, in connection with the forging of a letter purportedly issued by the State Department of Transport.
Bongei was apprehended by detectives from the Serious Crime Unit in Athi River, Machakos County.
His arrest followed investigations carried out by DCI after the State Department of Transport complained about a suspicious letter extending the term of Martyne Luther Lunani as the Director of Aircraft Accident Investigation at the Ministry of Roads and Transport.
DCI’s forensic examination experts established that the letter was not authentic, prompting detectives to begin tracing its origin.
The forensic trails subsequently linked the fake document to Bongei, leading to his arrest.
