A Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officer told a court that claims by an accused person that his mother is deceased are lies.
During examination by defence lawyer Sam Nyaberi, the investigating officer Amos Gachii Gakure, who is attached at the DCl Headquarters Public Complaints Department, told the Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Rose Ndombi that the information given by Abdihakim Said Jama aims to mislead the court.
The officer was testifying in a case where Jama is charged with obtaining a certificate of birth and Kenyan identify card fraudulently.
“The documents possessed by the accused person were acquired fraudulently where he registered for the identity card using a purported mother’s identity as his real mother,” the officer told the court.
Jama, through Nyaberi, had told the court that both his parents are deceased and that he used his mother Fatuma Mohammed’s identity card to register his documents.
“Are you aware that the parents of the accused are deceased?” Nyamberi asked
the officer.
In response, Gachii told the court that he conducted investigations and traced the said mother using the identity card details provided by Jama and managed to find her.
“I managed to locate Fatuma Mohammed whose identity card was used by the accused pretending to be his mother and I recorded her statement where she denied to have known the accused,” Gachii told the court on Tuesday April 1.
The officer told the court that he produced the photos of the accused person to the purported mother who denies to have met him.
He also testified that the local authority where the accused claims to hail from denied to have met or set eyes on him.
They denied the allegations that he came from the area. The investigator also told the court how they sought information from the department of the registration of persons confirm whether it was genuine.
The investigations revealed that Jamah had forged a birth certificate entry No. L00906313/13 and serial number
4208657 which belongs to Anna Gatwiri Kithure.
It was also disclosed that Jamah pretended to be the son of an unsuspecting woman, one Fatuma Mohamed who hails from Burat, Isiolo county.
“We looked for the purported mother and she produced a list of names of her eight children and she said that the accused’s name is not familiar with her hence disowning being even related by blood.”
When Fatuma appeared to give her testimony, she told the court that government officials visited her home in June 2023 and produced photos of a man and enquired whether she knew him,
“On looking at the photos I did not recognise him and he was not my son,” Fatuma denied knowing Jama.
She left the court in awe after confirming that her alleged ‘son’ is a stranger and she met him for the first time in court.
Another witness, Abdi Aliow Issak, a businessman and a member of the vetting committee of Ngare Mara location, denied taking part in a meeting purported to have taken place in the area where vetting of applicants of National Identity cards was held where the accused person claims to have been vetted and approved in 2011.
The witness told the court that he had also not signed the documents produced in and he informed the court that he always signs all official documents with his three full names, Abdi Alio Issak and not two as in the document presented before the court.
Jama was charged that between March and June 2011, in Isiolo within Isiolo County in the republic of Kenya he gave false information to a person employed in the public service for presenting false documents to the chief in order to procure a Kenyan Identity.
He was claiming to be Fatuma’s son but she disowned him saying he was a stranger. The highlighting of written submissions will be done on May 8.
Jama is further accused of being unlawfully present in Kenya contrary to 4(1) as read with section 13 of the Immigration Act CAP 172 laws of Kenya.
He was also charged that “between 1 March, 2011 and 3rd June, 2011, ni Isiolo within Isiolo County in the Republic of Kenya, you willfully gave information to Abdinassir Abdisalan Mohamed a person employed in public service in order to procure a Kenyan National Identity Card number 29651299 and Kenyan passport number BK019894 in the names of Abdihakim Saidi Jama, by falsely pretending that you were the son of Fatuma Mohamed of Kenyan National Identity Card number 00007005, a fact you knew to be false.”
He denied the charges when it was read to him and was released on a cash bail of Sh30,000 plus two contact persons.
The first witness was a chief from Isiolo who said he knows the woman whose name was listed as the mother of Jama.
“I know Fatuma Mohamed whose name was used in this issue and she is not the mother of the accused. He lied,” the chief Abdisalan Mohammed told the trial magistrate.
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