A woman posing as a High Court Advocate was apprehended Monday evening in a plan that also involved her stealing someone’s identity and unlawfully running a law practise.
According to the Law Society of Kenya (Nairobi Branch), the individual, Sharon Atieno Adunya alias Sharon Atieno Adunya Obade, was apprehended by the Rapid Action Team (R.A.T) in collaboration with Capitol Hill Station police officers and in the presence of LSK President Eric Theuri.
Sharon, according to LSK, had stolen the identity of someone with a name identical to hers and gone on to launch a successful legal profession, even representing herself in court.
“The LSK Nairobi Branch, through the Rapid Action Team (R.A.T) and the President of Law Society of Kenya, with the support of Capitol Hill Police Station Officers, nabbed a notorious masquerader, Sharon Atieno Adunya alias Sharon Atieno Adunya Obade,” the firm announced.
Sharon is also suspected of fabricating not just a national identity card but also a practising certificate, even going so far as to form her own law company while pretending to be an advocate.
“The said quack had stolen the identity of one Sharon Atieno Obade of P105/14694/18 which she used to carry on and represent herself in court and in her daily duties, thus deceiving the unsuspecting members of public,” they said.
While discussing the arrest, LSK President Eric Theuri said that Sharon was being held at the Capitol Hill Police Station and thanked members for the tip-off, saying that the organisation would ‘not cease’ in its quest to free itself of quacks.
Sharon’s arrest comes just days after a whirlwind weekend for another quack lawyer, Brian Mwenda Njagi, who captured Kenyans’ attention even as the LSK engaged in online exchanges with COTU boss Francis Atwoli and former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko, both of whom have defended his actions.
