By WoK reporter
The DCI has labelled blogger Edgar Obare a serial fraudster after he made damning allegations against Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua. According to a long thread on their twitter account, the DCI shared how Obare had coached one Desy Oduor Achieng into claiming that she was six months pregnant with the governor’s child.
Detectives from the Cybercrime unit unearthed how the blogger recruits young women who he then coaches how to……“stalk prominent personalities in political, business and religious circles for monetary exploitation. They ladies are then coached by Obare, on how to ensnare the victims into their traps then extort unimaginable sums of money from them…..“
Obare and his co-accused were intent on extorting kes10million from the governor.
Here are the tweets from the governor:
In a case of outright blackmail by fraudsters who intend to benefit financially from prominent personalities, by tainting their images online & demanding money not to post ‘scandalous’ information about them, detectives have once again arrested serial fraudster, Edgar Obare. pic.twitter.com/9jiJQXQpdn
— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) March 4, 2021
The suspect who has had previous run-ins with the law for publishing false & malicious information regarding individuals and their families is once again a guest of the state. Detectives from the Cybercrime unit have uncovered an underworld network of criminals involving
— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) March 4, 2021
young ladies recruited by Obare, to stalk prominent personalities in political, business and religious circles for monetary exploitation. They ladies are then coached by Obare, on how to ensnare the victims into their traps then extort unimaginable sums of money from them.
— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) March 4, 2021
In the current case facing the fraudster, one Desy Oduor Achieng his co-accused, had been coached how to stalk a prominent governor with the hope of extorting Sh.10 Million from him. Obare had shared the governor’s number with her and instructed her to tell him that she was
— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) March 4, 2021
pregnant with his child & that she would tell the whole world about their little secret. When the governor did not respond, she was instructed to threaten him that she would share photos that they had allegedly taken in compromising situations but the governor did not respond.
— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) March 4, 2021