This archive report was first published on 4 August 2020.
On July 31, 2020, Tracy Wairimu Ndegwa, a 34-year-old woman, allegedly sent two threatening letters to a High Commission in Nairobi. One of the letters was sprayed with an industrial chemical, while the other was laced with hay fever pesticide.
According to the police, Wairimu had previously been charged with another terrorism hoax targeting the Commissioner-General of the Kenya Prisons Service and had been out on cash bail. She is currently in police custody pending arraignment at Kibera Law Courts.
Research by the University of Nebraska has shown that accidental exposure or overexposure to pesticides can have serious health implications. Pesticides can enter the body through absorption through the skin or eyes, orally, or by breathing into the lungs, with respiratory exposure being particularly hazardous.
Meanwhile, a group of people claiming to sell telephone lines and run promotions in the Nairobi CBD were unmasked as fraudsters. Detectives attached to the Special Services Unit (SSU) of the DCI arrested seven suspected fraudsters along Ronald Ngala Street in the Nairobi CBD.
Just hours after the arrest of the seven, three other fraudsters were arrested along Moi Avenue as they attempted to con unsuspecting Kenyans. The three posed as employees of a mobile service provider conducting a promotion.
