How delivery rider was lured to death in South B

 

It has now emerged that Antony Otieno Olwal, 30, may have been tricked by online fraudsters to deliver a high-end mobile phone in South B, where he was brutally murdered on November 18, 2025.

Olwal's body was discovered under a bed at Meridian Court in South B, where he had been directed to deliver an iPhone valued at Sh220,000.

At the building, three suspects believed to have brutally killed Olwal were captured by CCTV exiting the premises with their heads covered.

By Friday afternoon, detectives at Makadara Sub-County said they had made headway in their investigations, but no arrests had been made.

For the first time since the murder, Olwal's widow, Eunice Otieno, gave a fresh account of how her husband was lured to his death by suspected online fraudsters who had rented a temporary studio at Meridian Court in South B, lying in wait.

The couple ran an online account named Jiji, where customers ordered electronics, but deliveries were done by Olwal, as his wife was stationed at a shop along Accra Road.

On the fateful day, November 18, his wife received an order from a client who introduced herself as Grace in Eldoret and requested a mobile phone worth Sh220,000, an iPhone 17.

"We were running one account, and whenever I got an order, he was the one delivering. That day, I got an order from a client who identified herself as Grace, but said the phone would be delivered to a person she described as her brother, called Hillary, in South B," she narrated.

Adding that, "After that, I contacted my husband, Olwal, to source the phone and deliver it to the said person in South B, but that day he took longer to get back than usual, and I was worried since his calls were not going through."

This forced her and Olwal's friend to proceed to South B, where they learned that her husband had been murdered.

"While approaching the building, we met an ice-cream seller while asking for directions, who told us about reports of a rider who had been murdered and described my husband’s motorcycle. At that point, I sensed something was not right, and my heart sank," she added.

"Now I have been left a widow with three children. I don't know how to move on. My appeal is for the police to pursue the killers so that justice for my husband can be served," she said.

CCTV footage in the apartment showed Olwal arriving at the building entrance around 11:50 am and being directed to the house where he was to make the delivery. While waiting, he appeared to be in communication with the client. At 12:02 pm, one suspect was seen leaving a brown bag with his head covered, followed closely by a second and third suspect, seemingly checking if anyone was watching.

Before exiting with the luggage, the suspects were briefly confronted by a staff member. One suspect handed over the bag and left, after which the supervisor discovered Olwal’s body on the fourth floor.

Witnesses said the suspects had booked the studio unit for a short stay but had not paid, leaving the bag containing the high-end mobile phone behind before fleeing.

Isiah Odhiambo, Olwal's colleague, said that of late, some fraudsters order mobile phones posing as customers with the intention of robbing delivery riders.

This, he said, had happened to Olwal twice in October, but he had managed to sense that he was about to be duped.

"Some fraudsters have dummy phones, and when they order genuine phones, their aim is to swap and pretend that they don't want the type," he explained.