Bank Manager blames Safaricom for the facilitation of Dusit Terrorists-‘I was just taking instructions’

DAILY POST: Bank Manager blames Safaricom for the facilitation of Dusit Terrorists-‘I was just taking instructions’ Editor's Choice, News 04:17 Friday, January 25, 2019- A bank manager accused of facilitating the financing of Al-Shabaab terrorists who attacked the Dusit D2 Complex in Riverside, Nairobi and killed 21 people has put Safaricom on the spot.
Sophia Njoki Mbogo, a Diamond Trust Bank Eastleigh Branch, is among suspects detained for 30 days to allow the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit probe their role in the terror attack. She is accused, as the branch boss, of allowing huge sums of monies to be cashed within a very short time, without question. One of the suspected financiers of the Dusit D2 attack, Mr Hassan Abdi Nur, had registered 52 Mpesa agent accounts that he used to withdraw large amounts of at Diamond Trust Bank Eastleigh Branch to fund the attack. However, in her filed affidavit, Ms Mbogo, points an accusing finger at Safaricom and stated that she has never dealt with any of the terrorism suspects, personally or professionally. She maintains that, the bank simply serves as an agent of mobile communication service provider Safaricom to release float according to the company’s instructions. “I am an innocent bystander in this criminal inquiry and there is no nexus between me and the other five terror suspects. And further, I am a law-abiding citizen with no previous criminal record,” she said.

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