- Everlyne Amondi is accused of masquerading as an employee of Skyward Limited Company at the airport where she was detected and arrested.
- She will remain in police custody for four more days to allow the police complete investigations into her alleged crime.
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A woman has told an Eldoret court how she bought clothes resembling staff uniform for a local airline to enable her gain entry into the airport so that she could enjoy watching planes take off and land.
She is accused of masquerading as an employee of Skyward Limited Company at the airport where she was detected and arrested.
Everlyne Amondi will remain in police custody for four more days to allow the police complete investigations into her alleged crime.
Eldoret Senior principal magistrate Mogire Onkoba ordered that she be detained at the central police station custody pending her appearance in court on Monday next week for plea taking.
“The four days requested by police to finalise investigations is granted after which you will be brought back to court,” the magistrate said.
Investigating officer Phanuel Kaaria who is attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit in Eldoret, told the court that they were yet to finalise investigations against the suspect related to impersonation.
Amondi was arrested on June 29 this year by police from the DCI Eldoret International Airport.
At the time of the arrest, the suspect was dressed as an employee of Skyward Airline Service, and after a search, she was found with uniforms resembling those of aircraft engineering services.
“She was arrested following a tip off from staff at the airport who noted that she was not one of them,” Kaaria said.
She was found with other uniforms similar to those of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport School of engineering and a yellow and white dust coat.
The suspect then told the court it was out of curiosity to see how planes land and take off at the airport that she decided to use all means at her disposal to access the highly secured facility.
“I made the clothes at a tailor's shop in Eldoret town. I told the tailor to make for me one uniform resembling that of the Skyward Airline employees which I then used to access the airport,” she said.
Amondi said by doing so, she did not have any ill intention and that she had gained entry to the airport severally before she was arrested.
“In fact I have been at the airport three consecutive times while donning the airline company’s uniform as I enjoyed watching how commercial and passenger planes land and take off on the run-away,” Amondi said.
She said she was so excited after gaining entry to the airport but by bad luck, she was arrested while roaming around the facility.