The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has arrested four people linked to the city’s widespread disappearance of cell phones.
Sarah Njeri and her sister Mary Wangui were also detained, along with Malumasi Aisha and Agaba Anestus Majuni, who are both from the neighbouring country of Uganda.
This arrest was made as part of an intelligence-led operation carried out by detectives in the busy Nairobi Central Business District.Â
Malumasi, who was the first to be cornered, was discovered in possession of a package containing 13 smartphones that were reportedly headed for Uganda’s black market. She then directed the investigators to Shop E17 in the Munyu Business Centre, where Sarah Wangari and Mary Wangui, two of her accomplices, were busy receiving additional stolen cell phones.
The criminals quickly directed the detectives to a fourth suspect. Agaba Majuni.
Agaba Majuni, who was arrested while waiting for the package intended for Uganda at the Simba Coach bus station.
The elite Crime Research & Intelligence Bureau investigators, DCI says, have widened their search for additional individuals in what is thought to be a sophisticated enterprise smuggling stolen mobile phones into nearby countries.
