A detective has disclosed to the court how a Somali national obtained a Kenyan identity card in pretences that he is a son to a woman who disowned her in court.
Sergeant Amos Gachie Gakure, a detective attached at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Headquarter Public Complaint department told the court how the report was made on January 4, 2023, against Abdihakim Said Jama being a non Kenyan and in possession of fake identification.
The investigator told the court how they sought information from the department of the registration of persons about birth certificates he possessed to confirm whether it was genuine.
The investigations revealed that the accused person had forged a birth certificate entry No. L00906313/13 and serial number 4208657 which belongs to Anna Gatwiri Kithure.
It was also disclosed that Jama 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 8 children and she said that the accused name is not familiar with her hence disowning being even related by blood.” Gakure said.
When the purported mother Fatuma appeared to give her testimony, she told the court that the government officers visited her at home on June 2023 and produced photos of a man and enquired whether she knew him,
“On watching the photos I did not recognize 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 area 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 court which bear the names of Abdi Alio, 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 the son of Fatuma Mohammed who disowned him saying he was a stranger.
The hearing will resume on April 1, 2025.