Abdulahi Abdi Mohamed is a key figure in the case of the Venezuelan citizen who was detained at the airport while carrying electoral materials.
The foreign national told detectives that the Kenyan government had asked him to transport the materials from Panama to Abdulahi’s Kenyan office.
As a result, many speculated about Abdulahi’s identity and his role in the smuggling of electoral stickers.
The IEBC and security agencies are back to square one now that the police have contradicted Wafula Chebukati’s statements about foreigners arrested.
Jose Gregorio Camargo Castellanos, a Venezuelan citizen, arrived in the country late Thursday night, July 21.
To find out why he had the stickers, which were marked on 16 of them but not on one, the authorities would take him into custody and question him.
A few days later, IEBC Chairperson Wafula Chebukati spoke out against the detention of the foreign national, claiming that he was an employee of the electoral body.
According to an 11-page statement given earlier today by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Director George Kinoti, the findings of their investigations have been explained.
This revelation was made in a long-winded communication by Kinoti, in which the Venezuelan citizen admitted that he had been asked into Kenya to bring in the election materials by someone who was not the IEBC.
“Further inquiry revealed that Abdulahi Abdi Mohamed had welcomed Gregorio to the nation when he arrived on a business visa. We believe that Mr. Abdulahi Abdi Mohamed originally possessed the materials he was holding because Mr. Carmago did not have any communication or paperwork from IEBC validating his invitation, according to our investigations into the suspect “according to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCI).
Following the investigation, a lot of people were curious about Abdulahi’s identity and his part in importing the materials just days before the election.
According to the DCI, Abdullahi told officers he knew of the Venezuelan’s plans to bring electoral supplies to Kenya.
The foreigner’s testimony to the investigators that he had been handed the materials to carry to Abdullahi’s Nairobi office was directly at odds with this.
Two further Venezuelans, Garcia and Suarez, arrived at JKIA and were also detained as part of the investigation into Carmago.
The 15th of July saw the arrival of a Canadian and a Panamanian with 17 IEBC stickers.
Their passports were discovered to be expired throughout the investigation, claims the DCI.
