Nairobi lawyer arrested over forgery, assault on cops
Benard Odero Okello of Benard Odero & Company Advocates
A city lawyer who presented forged documents before the Nairobi Employment and Labour Relations court was arrested, following the prosecution directive to police in Parklands, Nairobi to charge him.
The suspect, Benard Odero Okello of Benard Odero & Company Advocates was arrested at his office located at The Westery building in Westlands, Nairobi.
The Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP’s) directive to charge Odero followed painstaking investigations into a complaint filed by three Kenya County Government Workers Union officials, Nairobi Branch who discovered that the suspect had presented a case before the said ELRC at Nairobi Cause No. E068 of 2022, where he presented false documents with forged signatures of the three.
In the case, Odero purported that the complainants had signed a Change of Signatory & Fee Note Agreement, for him to be paid Sh150 million upon conclusion of a case in which he alleged to have represented them.
But the complainants disputed having executed or signed the said agreement.
The disputed documents, together with specimens of the complainants’ known signatures were hence submitted to the forensic document examiner for anlysis.
The forensic report confirmed that, indeed, the documents presented before court by the suspect were forged, supporting the complainants’ assertion that the signatures appearing on the disputed documents were not theirs.
Accordingly, a directive was given on September 2, 2026 for the suspect to be charged with two counts of forgery and uttering a false document.
Odero was summoned to present himself at Parklands Police Station but turned a deaf year, prompting the officers to launch a manhunt for him.
He was traced to his office.
To evade the arrest, the suspect threatened to jump off from the 8th floor window of his office, and when he was finally nabbed, attacked by biting two police officers who were trying to cuff him.
Consequently, besides the two approved charges with which Odero is faced, additional counts of resisting arrest and assaulting police officers will be preferred, police said on Thursday.
