The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has unmasked the ringleaders in the Nairobi Forest Road incident where boda boda riders assaulted a woman.
The DCI named Zachariah Nyaora Obadia as the “mastermind” of the incident that attracted nationwide condemnation.
According to the DCI, the boda boda rider was identified following digital forensic investigation by its Crime Research & Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) that placed him at the Forest Road incident.
Obadia was traced to Mukuru Kaiyaba informal settlement in Nairobi but narrowly escaped through a sewer line and is at large.
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The DCI has thus placed a warrant of arrest on him alongside his accomplices who were warned to report to the nearest police station.
Below is a statement by the DCI:
“The mastermind of the despicable sexual harassment incident, that has attracted countrywide condemnation has finally been unmasked.
This is after undercover agents drawn from the elite Crime Research & Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) and DCI Nairobi Regional Headquarters, narrowed down on the suspect identified as Zachariah Nyaora Obadia.
Using digital forensics, the sleuths working with cybercrime experts at the DCI National Forensic Laboratory, placed the thug at the scene of the crime scientifically and went after him this afternoon deep in Mukuru Kaiyaba informal settlement.
However, the suspect who is aware of the ongoing crackdown on errant boda boda riders escaped our dragnet by a whisker, via a sewer duct in the densely populated settlement.
The suspect has also been positively identified by his wife and other relatives in his rural home, sexually assaulting the victim in the widely shared videotape.
It is only a matter of time before we arrest him.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations is cautioning Zacharia Nyaora Obadia, not to engage detectives in cat and mouse games but to surrender at DCI headquarters or the nearest Police station within 24 hours.
Equally, his accomplices who were within the vicinity of the barbaric attack whether captured on the videoclip or not, have all been identified scientifically.
They are hereby ordered to submit themselves at DCI headquarters before detectives catch up with them.”
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