MIGORI TRADERS, FARMERS AND HEAD TEACHERS ARE LOSING MILLIONS OF SHILLINGS TO MONEY MINTING TRICKSTARS.

Writes Leo ODERA Omolo In Migori Town

MIGORI, a quiet small sleeping town, may not be a truly sleeping paradise as such, but has its mystetery and shocking stories..
It is indeed a busy town, which is infested with the highest crime rates and recurring incidences of violent robberies. The town is also said to be the conduit of both drugs and the entry point of light weapons from neighboring countries that are used by hard-core criminal elements in Kenyan towns.

But the latest arrival in town, are the dreadful tricksters gang, commonly known as “Wash”. The group is said to be minting millions of shillings from unsuspected members of the public, particularly the elite class of the shroud and greedy money-maniacs
Reports says some of the school head teachers have also fallen victims of the fraudsters. One such head teacher was recently forced to sale his sleek car at a throw away prices in order to replenish the school’s account after the crocks had cheated him to part with a cool whopping amount of Kshs 500,00 .

The teacher is said to have conspired with the school’s bursar and used parts of the fees paid by the students in a futile effort to have the money doubled to even a million shillings or more. A man said to have been introduced to the head teacher as Cameroonian money minter expert, is reported to have disappeared taking a cool Kshs 500,000 with him.

Another head teacher is said to be in the process of selling his building in a bid to raise the money, which he had lost to the tricksters. One thing, which is common in Migori, is that the victims usually go home quietly while shying away from reporting this incidents to the Police. Migori police Station is only half a kilometers away from the town’s centre. The are always policemen patrolling the town’s busiest business centre, but the victims of these fraudsters are said to be always ashamed of reporting this serious crime to the authorities.

The latest resurgence activities of the “Wash Wash” group in Migori tom be the splinter group of the criminal thugs, who swindled Kisumu residents million of shillings a couple years ago. But the Kisumu police under the command of the no nonsense Nyanza PPO Antony Kibuchi had smashed the ring of fraudsters.

A good number of them were cornered and rounded up by hawk-eyed CID officer from the Nyanza Provincial Criminal Investigation depart me{CID}.The tough measure by Kisumu police sent the “Wash Wash” group packing. Some of them were sent to jail, but after completing their prison sentences, sneaked out of Kisumu and relocated into other towns like Nakuru, Kericho, Kisii,Kakamega, Eldoret and Migori to continue with their deceitful illegal money-minting businesses…
Some members of the “Wash Wash” who have pitched camp in Migori town were heard bragging how they have so far swindled one unsuspecting head teacher in the region close to a colossal amount of Kshs 3 million.

Unlike the Kisumu tricksters who are reported to have invested their loots on the construction of new houses, the Migori lots are famous for extravagantly squandering their loots on excessive consumption of alcohol and women. Whenever, there is “ big catch” the bar owners are sure of a booming trade, especially
Migori’s proximity to the border area has also made the town to be the conduit if illicit trade in light weapons, which are used by hard-core criminals in executing their heinous crimes in other Kenyan towns. An infamous suburb, known as Oruba, was in early 2008 a no-go area, even for policemen. Thus were able to open fire indiscriminately scaring the police and other security agents away.

Oruba is also home to the car-jackers and drug traffickers, suspected of sending cargo of bhangs and other hard drugs to other parts of the country. Some of the bhang consignments come from the neighbnouring Tanzania brought in by racketeers and unscrupulous smugglers using what is commonly known as “Pnya Roots” border crossing in isolated locations, making it difficult for the police to control the inflow of the dangerous drugs and weapons.

During his tenure as the MP for Migoriu and Minister for Water Development, the Late John H Okwanyo had kept criminal and undesirable characters at bay and denied them the use of the town as their hideouts. Okwanyo had engaged a group of local youth numbering about twenty, who were covertly operating in town and taking notes of strangers and visitors to the town. . As soon as he received such notes, he would immediately passed them to the relevant authorities for action. This forced some of the criminal elements to move to the nearby towns of Awendo and Rongo..
But immediately soon after Okwanyo lost his parliamentary sea and died, the gangster immediately found their way back to Migori and rented houses in its suburbs

Although the Migori police are carrying out nightly patrol of the town’s strategic streets, Migori is a no area.in the evening. Some of its allays sand backstreets are very unsafe for a stranger in Town to walk around unaccompanied. This is said to be the same with the highway linking Migori and Isebania border post town.Motorists and Matatu passenger vehicle have had gun shots fired at their vehicle by gangsters hiding in some isolated parts of the road.

The “Wash Wash” tricksters are said to be targeting tobacco farmers from the Kuria districts and also sugar cane farmers from the nearby Awendo town, where Sonysugar factory is located. Most of the farmers from the two regions used Migori for banking and business purposes.

Can the PPO Kibuchi think of sending more detectives to Migoi and Awendo to go and unearth the activities of dangerous criminals and money-minting tricksters in Migori?.

ENDS
leppderaomolo@yahoo.com

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Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 04:48:01 -0700 [05/26/2009 06:48:01 AM CDT]
From: Leo Odera Omolo
Subject: MONEY MINTING TRICKSTERS ARE FLEECING TRADERS, FARMERS AND TEACHERS IN MIGORI