Sacked officer framed me, police impostor Joshua Waiganjo now claims

Suspected Police impostor Joshua Waiganjo has accused a former officer of framing him with fraud charges for refusing to facilitate his reinstatement into the service.

Waiganjo, who appeared before Nyeri Chief Magistrate Wilbroda Juma, told the court that Daniel Kago, a former OCS, became bitter after he was sacked and could not get his job back.

"Since Kago knew I was a senior police officer and close to the Provincial Police Officer, he implored me to influence his reinstatement. It is after I expressed my inability to assist him that he conspired with the complainants and accused me of obtaining money by false pretence," he said.

The court heard that Kago was seeking revenge because he was sacked by one Michael Remi Ngugi, Waiganjo's close friend and co-accused.

Through his lawyer Charles King'ori, Waiganjo produced several documents including receipts of the hotel he stayed in between October 6 and 16, 2013, the time he is alleged to have defrauded the complainants.

When asked to authenticate the validity of the hotel receipts, Waiganjo replied that it was not his responsibility but of the prosecution to prove whether the receipts were genuine of not.

Among the documents that Waiganjo presented before the court was a list bearing names of senior police officers, his name being third after John Mbijiwe and one Gerald Maina, who boarded a flight from Wilson Airport to Baragoi on October 30, 2012.

He also produced photos of him taken together with high ranking police officers, and a letter indicating his alleged appointment as Rift Valley's Assistant Police Commissioner Reservist by former Rift Valley PPO Peter Kimanthi.

The letter was dated May 29, 2003 and copied to the then Commissioner of Police.

Waiganjo also claimed to have been promoted from a Kenya Police Reservist to an Inspector by one Alfred Ouma in 2000.