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Nzoia has been blamed for colluding with conmen in Kitale town who use tricks
to extort money from innocent residents especially women and school children
who are unaware of their con gimmicks.
Speaking
to Weekly Citizen, a businessman Richard Simiyu blamed the enforcement
department for allowing and entertaining the hoodlums who pretend to work with
Safaricom as mobile phone promoters to operate in Kitale. He said women and
school children are being conned by the crooks who have now moved near former
Standard Bank building from their initial place opposite Suam Supermarket where
they encountered donkey beatings by
hawkers who claimed they were stealing
from innocent people.
The
same complaint was raised by a boda boda rider in town Ben Robert who blamed
the enforcement department for entertaining the cons because they are in need
of daily tax. He said if there will be no response, they will organise a
demonstration to the county to protest why they have allowed con mobile phone
promoters to roam and steal from innocent citizens. He said they should sell
their products without involving their customers in tricky promotions where the
innocent lose money.
Recently, a
woman was conned Sh16,000 by the crooks in a fake mobile phone promotion where
she was given a card to scratch and told she had won. She was told to leave her
phone numbers so that she could be called later to collect her present after
refusing to refund her money saying she had already scratched the card’’. Last year, before they received beatings by
hawkers, they were arrested by Kitale CID officers but they are now back again
in different corners.
Robert
said they now that school children and
ignorant women will fall prey to the cons’ tricks. Kitale Town Central chief
has also pointed an acccusing finger at the county enforcement department for
their failure to dismantle the terror group who normally come with their
vehicle as they promote their bogus products. Efforts to get the county
enforcement boss Eliud Nabiimba were futile and his juniors refused to comment.
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