A Milimani magistrate will today give directions in a case where three men are charged with fraudulently swapping ex-OCS Samson Taalam's mobile phone to solicit funds from the public.
This is after Dennis Masavi Musyimi pleaded guilty to three counts of fraudulently replacing Taalam's phone number and soliciting cash from the public.
The phone was at the time in the custody of the Independent Police Oversight Authority, which was investigating Taalam over the death of teacher cum blogger Albert Ojwang while in a police cell.
Musyimi pleaded guilty to willfully procuring the replacement of the SIM card belonging to Talaam by falsely pretending to be the rightful owner.
The court was told that the illegally obtained line was later used to solicit money from members of the public for his own gain. The offence was committed between June 16 and June 19 this year.
Musyimi was charged alongside Amos Nzomo Kimanzi and James Mutemi Munyithya, both of whom denied the charges and were set to face a full trial.
Senior principal magistrate Dolphina Alego will today issue directions to Musyimi ahead of his sentencing, while his co-accused will proceed for pre-trial.
Case against former police officer Ahmed Rashid
At the High Court in Kibera, the hearing of the murder case against former police officer Ahmed Rashid will continue today for the third day in a row.
There were heated exchanges over firearms allegedly issued to officers in the Pangani patrol team that was led by Rashid during the fatal shooting in 2017, in which two teenagers were killed.
Prosecution witness Joseph Omwenga, a DCI officer who took part in the early stages of the investigation, testified that his team requested four firearms as part of the probe into the incident along Eastleigh First Avenue.
He said the request was made through a letter to the Starehe OCPD on April 11, 2017, alongside a demand for Rashid’s pocket phone and other records.
According to Omwenga, three guns were surrendered, but a fourth was never produced. He admitted under cross-examination that documents before him, including the arms movement register, did not show who had been assigned the missing firearm.
Defence lawyer Danstan Omari pressed the officer repeatedly to identify the weapon and its assigned officer.
“Show me the gun that was not issued. Was it ever accounted for?” Omari asked as he walked the witness through the documentation.
Hearing continues
