A 24-year-old Somali national has been arrested for being in the country illegally after police established he had forged documents to get a Kenyan identity card.
Abdihakim Saidi Jama was presented in Makadara Law Courts and police were allowed to detain him for 14 days pending further probe.
This is after it emerged that a birth certificate he used to get his identity card was fraudulently obtained.
He is also accused of being in Kenya unlawfully in contravention of section 53 of the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act.
Detectives from the DCI said in an affidavit that Jama had obtained his ID card in Isiolo yet he is not a Kenyan national.
The investigations showed the entry number of the birth certificate that Jama had used in getting his ID and passport belonged to Anne Gatwiri Kithure.
Police said the birth certificate used to get the documents was fraudulently obtained.
Makadara senior principal magistrate Hellen Onkwani ordered the man to be detained in police cells for 14 days pending investigations.
Police plan to pursue all those who helped him get the documents. The issue, according to police, has opened many fronts of investigation.
The drama came out following a feud between Jama and one Ayni Hussein Muhamud, who had accused him of trying to steal her business in Eastleigh.
Ayni is a British national of Somali origin and had employed Jama at her shop, which he later allegedly tried to lock her out of.
This happened during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and subsequent lockdowns.
The woman told police she imports clothes from London and China to her three shops in Eastleigh as stock.
She even had the ability to monitor the business remotely through CCTV.
However, her world came crashing down when she discovered that her trusted employee had registered the three shops under his own name, severing their previous communication.
Realising the gravity of the situation, Ayni sought assistance from the local business community and elders in reclaiming her business.
After hearing both parties’ arguments, the community and elders decided to divide the three shops between them, insisting that Ayni surrender one of the shops to Jama, a decision she vehemently opposed.
She told police she had single-handedly stocked the shop, paid rent, and covered other workers’ salaries.
This prompted another round of harassment on the woman who had arrived in Nairobi to pursue the issue as she was once arrested and locked up in police cells.
The matter is separately under probe by the Internal Affairs Unit and Independent Policing Oversight Authority.
Determined to seek justice, Ayni’s legal team filed a formal complaint with the Directorate of Criminal
Investigation (DCI) internal unit, which took over the matter that has now revealed the new developments.