‘Rogue Tracker’ still roaming despite exposÈ

By Standard Reporter

The police are yet to question Track IT Managing Director Shehzad Tejani even after he was exposed on camera by KTN offering a bribe.

Mr Tejani was caught on camera trying to bribe KTN journalists to prevent broadcast of a damning report on his car tracking company.

Track IT Managing Director Shehzad Tejani addresses journalists at their offices in Westlands, Wednesday. [PHOTO: STAFFORD ONDEGO/STANDARD]

The operation dubbed ‘Rogue Tracker’ shows Tejani captured on camera giving out money totaling Sh1m to induce two KTN investigative reporters not to expose how his company may have conned customers by not fitting their vehicles with Track IT’s advertised anti-theft devices.

Ultimately responsible

"Well I am ultimately responsible… we are competing, it has not been easy, come on guys, tufanye (lets make it) one million," this is Tejani’s voice as captured on tape by the KTN investigative team.

Yesterday The Standard had one complainant, Mr Mohammed Yusuf who claimed his car was stolen last year, along Nairobi’s Jogoo Road.

"I got compensation for my car by the insurance… a friend later told me the car was spotted at the Kenya-Tanzania border and when I informed the Track IT officials they took two days to try and locate it but in vain," he said.

To date, the Toyota Corolla G Touring model, has never been found and the big question following the damning revelations is whether the car was ever fitted with a surveillance device after all.

Poorly manned

According to a survey by the KTN team, the road to the Kenya-Tanzania border is poorly manned despite being the escape route for most carjackers.

This means gangsters, after learning the cars are not fitted with a tracking device, have an easy escape route.

Investigations reveal that most cars that pass the border are dismantled and sold as spare parts in Burundi, Rwanda, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

And with Tejani’s desperate efforts to bribe our reporters, the hard truth could be that more car owners might have been swindled.

Also captured on tape is Tejani’s admission that he had been abetting the crime for more than two years now, ostensibly, due to stiff competition in the car tracking business.

He is heard promising to settle the remaining Sh500,000 bribe mid-this month to ensure his ills are never known to the world.