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Police Arrests Three Suspects For Mugging A Pastor Ahead of Benny Hinn’s Visit to Kenya. The three arrested three robbery suspects allegedly abducted a pastor and stripped him naked before robbing him of Ksh.55,000 around the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi on Thursday, 22nd February 2024.
The three are, Bernard Mbunga Mbusu, Alphonse Munyau and Samuel Musembi Kamito, were arrested at their respective homes in Syokimau, Kitengela and Katani areas respectively. The operation was led by the Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations Officers (DCI) detectives based in Nairobi Area Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau backed by Lang’ata counterparts.
Police Arrests Three Suspects For Mugging A Pastor
A statement by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Saturday revealed that the incident occurred as the said pastor had just concluded his preparations for the forthcoming Benny Hinn crusade to be held at Nyayo Stadium.
American-Canadian televangelist Benny Hinn was invited by Rachael Ruto for a Government sponsored crusade in Kenya. The crusade is to be held at Nyayo stadium and the victim pastor was part of the team that was preparing for crusade.
DETECTIVES ROUND UP SUSPECTS BEHIND PASTOR'S ABDUCTION, ROBBERY
Three robbery suspects reported to have abducted and robbed a pastor of his phone and cash Thursday night as he walked to a restaurant near the Nyayo National Stadium have been arrested.
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“According to the victim who is a pastor at the Christ Church, he was heading for dinner after a beehive of activities planning for the forthcoming Benny Hinn crusade set to be held at the Nyayo National Stadium, when three men accosted him and bundled him in a waiting saloon car,” stated the DCI.
In the disturbing incident, the trio is said to have first stripped the clergyman and taken photos of him naked, which they then used to coarse him to comply with their bidding failure to which they would share the nude photos across social media platforms.
The man of God therefore decided to cooperate and the men withdrew Ksh.55,000 from his M-Pesa.
The DCI further divulged that the pastor then filed a report at the Nyayo Police Station after which a contingent of sleuths drawn from Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau detectives and Langata swang to action and arrested the culprits.
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“Responding to this report which was made at Nyayo Police Post, the DCI team analysed the available forensic tips which led them to Village Apartment Hse No F2 within Syokimau where the first suspect, Bernard Mbunga Mbusu was arrested,” read the statement.
After a brief interrogation, Bernard led the team to Kitengela where his accomplice Alphonce Munyau was arrested at Stengo 1 apartment Hse No. E4, in whose possession was the victim’s phone.
Alphone was equally interrogated and he led the team to Katani area of Athi river where the last suspect Samuel Musembi was nabbed.
Following the arrest of the three, a search by the detectives recovered three handsets, an iPhone 13 hosting the sim card which received the stolen money and a PDQ bank card swapping machine.
They were moved to Langata Police Station where they are being detained awaiting arraignment on Monday.
