A man was arrested after conning over 200 unsuspecting people over Ksh280,00 on Facebook, pretending to be Pastor Dorcas Rigathi, Deputy President’s wife.
23-yr-old Blaise Wafula was masquerading online as Rigathi’s wife, offering victims non-existent education and business loans through M-Pesa.
He used to charge the applicants Ksh700 for registration fees and Ksh2500 for applications for the supposed loans he was offering.
The unsuspecting victims were promised loans ranging from Ksh10,000 to Ksh200,000 after paying the registration and application fees.
The suspect had several Facebook accounts with huge following ranging from 7000-27,000 followers created between December 2022 and January 8, 2023, in relation to Mama Care Initiative Loan associated with the DP’s wife.
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Wafula was arrested at his hideout in Soy, Uasin Gishu county by detectives who tracked him using cyber forensic analysis of digital data.
Four mobile phones, three national identity cards of different people and four sim cards were recovered when police arrested the suspect.
Wafula was jointly charged alongside his co-accused Jacklyne Tokesi, before Milimani Law Courts chief magistrate Lucas Onyina.
The two were also charged with fraudulently using electronic data contrary to Section 38 (2) of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act, 2018.