Nyakach politician arrested for Robbing Foreign Couple sh.13.5 Million in Fake Gold Scandal

BY RICHARD JUNIOUR

A youthful philanthropic Nyakach politician was among the four suspects arrested for attacking and robbing a foreign couple over sh13.5 million in a fake gold drama in Nairobi.

According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Nashon Otieno Angudha aka kuja biro, Jack Ouma Okwiri and Felix Ochieng Nyongesa were arrested in an operation at The Social House Nairobi Hotel in Lavington, while the fourth suspect Ronald Arani Kirera was nabbed at an office setup building in Runda Glory Valley no. 685.

The four are set to face robbery with violence, attempted rape, and kidnapping charges against the Australian man and his Ugandan wife who were lured into the country from Uganda for the fake gold business deal in Nairobi.

Angudha alights from a chopper when he attended a past political event in Nyakach

DCI detailed that a contact person who identified himself as ‘Raymond from England’ had days earlier connected the couple with Felix Ochieng Nyongesa, who posed as the seller.

After a series of whatsapp conversations, Felix asked the couple to meet him at Village Market in Gigiri, Nairobi on Oct 28, where they were to do the business.

Once at the agreed venue, Felix sent a driver who picked them up in a Toyota Prado and drove them to the office setting building along Glory Rd in Runda, where more than 10 men lay in wait.

On arrival at their snare, gears shifted fast from the initial VIP treatment to a rough up that subdued them, with the man suffering hefty blows and strangulation that left his wife begging for their lives. She was not spared either as the gang handcuffed and slapped her repeatedly as they touched her inappropriately.

Eventually, the $60,000 the couple had carried in cash was robbed off, including other jewelleries valued at over $30,000.

Scared, badly injured and writhing in agonizing pain, the couple was hurled back in the Prado and dumped at Rehema Hse within the CBD. Good Samaritans helped them to a South B hospital where they were treated before reporting to DCI Gigiri.

An operation team and crime research detectives launched a manhunt for the perpetrators, forensically placing the arrested four at the scene of crime.

Their apprehension came along with the recovery of money counting machines, metallic boxes, forged certificates of mines, customs reflector jackets, military boots, KRA certificates, stamps, a Kenyan flag and fake golden metal bars all confiscated at their Runda office.