How Riverside Attackers Used My Stolen ID to Register their Simcards

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Investigations into Tuesday’s bloody terror attack that saw at least 22 people dead and many more injured took a dramatic turn on Fridat after detectives traced 26 year old Eric Kinyanjui Munyi to a hospital in Kiambu after it emerged that a cell phone used by the terrorists was registered with his particulars.

DCI officers had established that Kinyanjui was not among those who died in the attack. Detectives from Dagoretti DCI traced Kinyanjui to Nazareth Hospital where he is currently working as a trainee nurse. Kinyanjui was in shock when the officers questioned him about the Dusit Hotel attack.

Kinyanjui told the police he was not in communication with any of the killed men and that his identity card and particulars could have been used to register the cell phone which the terrorists were using.

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He was questioned by the police but was not required to travel to Nairobi to record statements. Police also matched his face and footage of the CCTV cameras of the attackers. He will record statements with police later.

The medic told the police he lost his identity card sometime last July and he reported the matter to the police and obtained a police abstract. He later used the abstract to replace his lost ID which he believes the criminals used to register their cell phone.

Cases of stolen ID cards which are then used to register phone numbers are very common in Kenya,

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