This archive report was first published on 12 October 2021.
On October 12, 2021, detectives in Nakuru arrested Victor Kiprono Ngeno, a man suspected of defrauding the public by pretending to be a judicial officer.
Ngeno allegedly obtained money from Samuel Soi by falsely claiming to be a magistrate and intervening in a civil case at the Nakuru Law Courts.
According to Anthony Sunguti, the Nakuru County Criminal Investigations Officer, Ngeno is being held pending arraignment on Tuesday.
"The suspect has been on the run. He is suspected of defrauding the public," Sunguti said.
Police claim Ngeno obtained Sh100,000 from Soi on diverse dates between March 15, 2018, and December 31, 2019, and an additional Sh1,564,230 from Soi on the pretence that he was a brother to Devolution CS Charles Keter and would help his son secure a job at the Kenya Pipeline.
Soi's lawyers, Kipkoech Ng'etich and Clement Koigi, had been piling pressure on the police to arrest the suspect, writing several letters to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Nakuru seeking to have Ngeno investigated.
On July 5, 2021, Kipkoech wrote another letter to the DCI questioning why they were yet to act despite the complaints, claiming that the police were protecting the man.
On September 13, Kipkoech wrote another letter seeking to know why the police had not arrested Ngeno despite informing them that he had been arrested in Bomet.
Ngeno was arrested by detectives in Bomet in July, moments after making a report at Konoin Police Station that an administration police officer in Sotik had robbed him of Sh500,000.
