DCI’s Child Protection Unit on the spot – Weekly Citizen

Kenyans are up in arms against one top officer at the DCI in what is seen as a syndicate of massive corruption at the Kenya’s only Child Protection Unit based at the DCI headquarters.
A senior superintendent of police at the office is alleged to have created a web of extortionists across the country which is now tainting the image of the National Police Service as money in millions is being swindled from innocent people particularly foreigners and other rich Kenyans.
The extortion syndicate has ended up also ruining lives of many innocent foreigners who are being threatened with fictitious charges of defilement in order to part with money. Those daring to question the illegal demands for bribes sometime end up being charged and prosecuted in courts.
The cartel has enlisted informers located in many areas of target, mainly Mombasa and Malindi, where they profile and scheme against foreigners and tourists staying in the areas.
Sources familiar with the happenings confirmed to Weekly Citizen that the informers mostly women would use their underage girls to lure male tourists cum foreigners whom they later accuse of defilement once seen moving around entertaining them.
The women claimed to be on cartel payroll and paid on every scheme fixed, would first raise complaint directly with the officer based in Nairobi that one of their girls has been defiled and in the blink of an eye, a team of CID officers would swing to arrest and detain the culprit at a police station nearby without an OB or without complainants name mentioned till the end of the court case.
According to sources, the senior officer would then fly from Nairobi to Mombasa or Malindi, lodge fictitious defilement charges against the suspect and in few minutes he would be arraigned in court for prosecution.

Osman Elsek Erdinc, a Turkish national with his lawyer Cliff Ombeta at Shanzu Law Courts

The officer is said to be even ready to interfere with cases before courts for her own interests in case a suspect on target list becomes difficult to handle.
The extortion syndicate is traced to courts in Kilifi and Malindi where she has also enlisted a number of corrupt judicial officers to fix the accused and ensure he goes to jail.
The latest incident is the case involving a Turkish billionaire, Osman Elsek Erdinc accused of defiling three minors at his Kikambala home, in Kilifi county. The case that has been dragging before a Malindi magistrate’s court seems to have hit a snag after lawyers representing the accused raised an alarm over what many saw as the hands of the extortion syndicate trying to push and ensure the tycoon ends up being jailed.
Sources privy with the case claim a well orchestrated plot was hatched by informers including a director of a private school in Mombasa where the minors were schooling, through the officer, to fix the Turkish businessman who has been in Kenya for the last 10 years without any criminal records.
The lady officer allegedly dispatched a team of more than 10 CID officers to go and arrest the businessman at his home in Kikambala, an incident that occurred early last year, on allegations that he defiled the three school girls aged between 15 and 17.
One of her known informer cum conspirator Sophia Sein Mutaiwua was arrested recently by police and charged at Shanzu Law Courts on allegations that she had been using her 17-year-old girl to fix foreigners on intentional claims that they had defiled her.
In what is seen as their direct link with CID children department extortion racket, Sophia and her young daughter were the only prosecution witnesses in the Turkish defilement case in Malindi. Other witnesses testified that it was a setup for grabbing the businessman’s properties after deporting him from the country.
Prosecutor handling the case later marked two other prosecution witnesses as hostile after they declined to testify on claims that they were couched to be part of the fixing scheme.
Sophia, 56, was, according to sources privy to her alleged illegal activities, hired by the CID officer through Mrs Njuguna, a director at Greenwood Academy based at Nyali, Mombasa, to lure her daughter and two other girls.
They were to coach the three girls on how to set up the Turkish tycoon, get him arrested and charged over defilement unless he agrees to pay a colossal sum of money as ransom, which was to be shared later.
The self-styled single mother of five kids, currently at her menopause and living in Mtwapa is claimed to have reverted to exchanging her young girls with rich male foreigners, tourists in particular, in order to get money for her upkeep.
It was all celebrations in an estate where she resides in Mtwapa after news went round that police had arrested her over claims of giving false information concerning her daughter who was still at large by then.
The fact that a top officer at the Child Protection Unit was using her sent wrong signals to the public about the vision and mission of the unit that is known to be the first unit to be launched in Africa for the protection of rights of children.
According to Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti the existence of the unit is a major milestone in protecting children who are the future of this country. But to achieve the noble goal as Kinoti a staunch catholic envisages the unit has to be streamlined.