Criminals have resorted to witchcraft and other unorthodox methods, in a bid to evade detection by our hawk-eyed detectives, as DCI intensifies its onslaught against criminals and criminal gangs in the country.
Last Tuesday, detectives based at the elite Crime Research & Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) supported by their Special Services Unit (SSU) counterparts, pounced on a suspect who took off with Sh 4million, from her employer three weeks ago.
The suspect identified as Miriam Mwelu, who was accompanied by her partner Timothy Akoi, were found at a renowned witch doctor’s house in Gachie, Kiambu county, where Mwelu had gone to seek ‘protection’ from police officers.
The detectives arrived in time as the suspect was being immersed in a basin containing a concoction of blood drawn from a dead fowl, whose features resembled those of a cockerel.
Upon noticing the detectives, the elderly witch doctor pronounced endless incantations in an attempt to keep them at bay, but that did not deter the sleuths from executing their mission much to the bemusement of Mwelu, who had closed her eyes expecting the sleuths to vanish.
She couldn’t come to terms with reality, after the in-charge of the operation told her ‘mama tupo site vaa nguo twende’.
Following the arrest, the suspect led the police to another house where jewellery, also believed to have been stolen from the employer was recovered.
The arrest came weeks after reports that a house held had stolen Ksh4 million from a Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS).
