Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Migori Town.

A smartly dressed and sweet talking conman masquerading as building contractor is said to be on the rampage causing havoc with the life of unsuspecting politicians, government officials and local CDF committees.

The man who is said to be in thirties is sad to be have perfected in the arts of conman ship is always bragging of having connection in higher authority and within the corridor of power.

His tricks and thieving escapades have on earned him jail terms twice. He said to have several cases related to conning escapades pending before the courts at Rongo, Kisii and Migori.

The well bred and well educated conman is also said to be fond of writing malicious letters the people in higher positions within the government making generalized and unfounded allegations and accusations against junior officers working in the field. After authoring such malicious letters to the higher authorities, he turn to the junior officers issuing threats and intimidation telling the victims how he is capable of causing them a lot of suffering.

He is reported to have swindled a number of local CDF committee huge sums running into million. He is said to be using the names of big people to secure contract under the pretext that he was a registered contractor.

After irregularly securing such tenders using the names of senior men in position, the man turns up and engages the same crude and crafty method of arms twisting the local CDF committee with the demand for advance payment even before setting his foot on the project’s site.

Once he had secured the advance payments of some money, which our source says usually reported to be involving quite substantial amount of money, the man vanished in the thin air without touching anything in the targeted project.

The conman is said to be on the loose. A member of Parliament from Southern Nyanza region recently suffered from the conman is silent. The conman is said to have approached Mheshimiwa with the documents purporting that he had worn a tender worth millions of shillings from local CDF, and request the MP to lend him some money so that he could buy some materials and place the same on the site before he could attract the first batch of payment from the CDF kitty.

The conned MP obliged and borrowed for him some substantial amount of money running into the excess of Khs 300,000. The man disappeared and it later emerged that he had not won any CDF tender. The MP made a frantic effort and later traced him. He cornered the conman who readily agreed that he would refund the MPO’s money by way of depositing cash on the legislator’s bank account.

He did so on two or three occasion and then melted in the thin air. But he had retained the pay-in bank slips in which he deposited the money to the MP’s bank account. He later turned up and claimed that it was he who had lent the MP a hand of financial assistance and later displayed the pay-ins bank slips to several people and attempted to blackmail the MP who is now very jittery about the whole exercise.

After spending a couple of months in jail, the conman’s wife who is a non-Luo is reported to have deserted him and went back to her parents place in Eastern Province. The man is now operating as widow’s inheritor. He is being credited of being so immune from HIV/Aids because some of the women he is now cohabiting with in Migori town re said to have lost their husbands through the scourge of HIV/Aids.

Reports reaching us from Migori said the man was recently conneed by the brother-in-laws of a of a beautiful young woman a widow who he had eloped with from the rural village and was now cohabiting in a rented house in Migori town who gave the conman proper beating.

The man is also credited for being a master forgery. He was jailed for three months by a court in Mombasa who found him guilty on a charge of forging a project’s cheque.

The rude and arrogant conman is said to be a frequent visitor to police headquarters, office of the President and other offices manned by people in high places, and after such visits he come back to Migori County armed with good reasons to intimidate junior officers working in the field.

Previously he was so much feared by members of the police and provincial administration authorities in the entire Migori County, but after he was arrested and arraigned in court, he has since lost his immunity and is said to be on the run with he police sleuths hot pursuit on his heels. He is no longer untouchable, and plans are said to be a foot to have him account for all the money he has received from the various CDF projects in the region.

CFD officials, MP, civic leaders, the police and members of the provincial administration have been wane that this conman is on the loose and he is capable of causing havoc with the lives of others.

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