One Hillary Obutu is claimed to be busy in Nyamira county extorting cash from the clueless unemployed lads who have put their hopes in him that he will land them a job in the county.
Fortunately the Detectives have arrested the man who apparently has strings attached to the related to the Nyamira county first family as it is said they are related. He got arrested over suspected fraud.
The victims were probably lured to believe the guy as suspect Hillary Obutu, is a brother to First Lady Naomi Nyagarama.
It is alleged that has been on the run since last week after several locals registered complaints against him.
One of the detectives confirmed that Obutu will remain in custody to allow for more investigations.
The fellow has been accused of defrauding the locals of amounts ranging from Ksh .200,000 to Ksh.300,000 on the pretext that he would assist them secure employment in the county government.
He was arrested on Monday evening and is being held for interrogation in an undisclosed location.
Awhile back in one of county job scams in Meru county, a con man posed as the National Coordinator of World Vision Kenya, deceiving people he was in a position of securing them jobs at refugee camps and poverty eradication projects. Several Meru residents became victims of the man, whose names released by World Vision and police were Dr Paul Omondi Ayoki, alias Paul Ayoki alias Paul Omondi Aluso. His latest scam targeted nine locations in Meru County, namely Katheri West, Kianjogu, Chugu, Muthara, Kiirua, Thau,Kieng’o, Amwathi, Kindani and Kianjogu.
The said conman called the areas’ chiefs and asked them to provide names and telephone contacts of youths aged between 18 and 35 years and who had obtained a mean grade of D and above in the KCSE, and willing to work on a new poverty eradication project in nine locations of the county.
The smooth-talking conman was able to sweet talk several of them into sending him between Sh 2,000 each and Sh 9,000, apparently to get their contract forms. The chiefs blew the whistle after the conman had defrauded a number of the youths who were eager to get involved in the project.
Katheri West chief Salome Nguta’s daughter who has a Masters in Business Administration, was asked for Sh 9,000 and was to be contracted as the coordinator of the project in the location. The conman had obtained the contacts of the chiefs through an unsuspecting Meru-based journalist. The journalist, out of goodwill, had even contacted leaders, including MPs, to know the most needy locations in the county.