{"id":30211,"date":"2024-04-22T06:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T06:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/armed-and-dangerous-serial-imposter-arrested-by-eacc\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T06:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T06:03:27","slug":"armed-and-dangerous-serial-imposter-arrested-by-eacc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/armed-and-dangerous-serial-imposter-arrested-by-eacc\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Armed and dangerous\u2019 serial imposter arrested by EACC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) sleuths have arrested an imposter who has been presenting himself as a detective at the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect identified as Militonic Mwendwa Kitute, was tracked from Nairobi to his Kitui home where he was arrested on Saturday at 4 am.<\/p>\n<p>His firearm and seven mobile phones are among items confiscated from him.<\/p>\n<p>The serial imposter, who has a conviction history and unsuccessfully vied for a Parliamentary seat in the 2022 general elections, was arrested on Saturday and is currently detained at Kilimani Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn armed and dangerous criminal who has been conning Kenyans while impersonating EACC Detectives, as well as issuing fake Integrity Clearance Certificates to job seekers at a fee, in the names of top EACC officials, has been arrested,\u201d said EACC in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was escorted from the Integrty centre to Milimani Law Courts.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/armed-and-dangerous-serial-imposter-arrested-by-eacc\/\">\u2018Armed and dangerous\u2019 serial imposter arrested by EACC<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) sleuths have arrested an imposter who has been presenting himself as a detective at the agency. The suspect identified as Militonic Mwendwa Kitute, was tracked from Nairobi to his Kitui home where he was arrested on Saturday at 4 am. His firearm and seven mobile phones are among items confiscated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}