Politics and policy
By WANJIRU MACHARIA
The stolen Presidential Escort limousine could have
crossed the border into a neighbouring country through Bungoma, a senior
lawyer has said.
Speaking at the Rift Valley Criminal Investigations
Department Provincial Headquarters on Monday evening, lawyer Cliff
Ombeta who is representing a mechanic suspected to be involved in the
theft said the limousine’s signal was traced to Bungoma on Sunday
evening.
He agreed that the vehicle was taken to Mr Aggrey
Ochieng’s garage in Nakuru’s London Estate but quickly added that his
client was not aware that it had been stolen from the presidential
escort or any other person.
“The gunmen who stole the Presidential Escort
vehicle went to my client’s garage with it to check on another vehicle
that they had taken there for repairs and they spent a lot of time with
him,” he said.
Mr Ombeta said the gunmen spent about three hours
with Mr Ochieng who even took them for breakfast at a famous hotel
within the town.
“They took breakfast and told my client that they
wanted to have their hair cut, he took them to a barbershop and they
later went back to his house before leaving with the BMW limousine,” he
said.
Mr Ombeta said his client told him that one of the
criminals entered his house and that is when he may have left the gun
that Mr Ochieng is now being accused of handling.
“My client told me that one of the gunmen just
entered his house as if it was a toilet and that is maybe when he dumped
the gun therein,” he said.
The lawyer who had spent close six hours with Mr
Ochieng at the provincial CID offices said some of the people who had
accompanied the gunmen during their interaction with his client were
being tracked down using their mobile phones
Mr Ombeta claimed that even the car that Mr Ochieng
has been charged with being in possession of had been brought to the
garage by the same people.
“My client has been dealing with the gunmen for a
long time, they go to his garage for services little did he know that
they were criminals,” said the advocate.
He said Ochieng would be taken back to court on
Friday for the prosecution to decide whether to charge him with the
limousine theft or any other offence.
Mr Ombeta said Ochieng had been kept under police
custody for five days under prosecution’s request to allow time for
further investigations.
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