Politician Eric Adede is one of the key suspects in the fake Sh2 billion that was found in a safe box at Barclays bank’s Queensway branch.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Adede is the owner of the safe box in the bank.
A safe box is just a metallic box within a bank’s premises which is rented to customers to keep their private items.
These can include cash, expensive jewelry or documents.
It is operated privately but within normal banking hours.
Others suspects in the scam are Ahmed Shah, Elizabeth Muthoni, Irene Wairimu Kimani and two bank officials.
The bank officials, police said, are suspected of collusion as no reports were made over the customer’s suspicious visits to the bank since 2017 when the fake cash was reportedly taken to the safe box.
Adede is an ODM politician and ran for the Homa Bay Town parliamentary seat in 2017.
Conspiracy theories were rife on social media Tuesday afternoon after news of the cash hit the interwebs as netizens claimed the figure found was Sh17 billion.
On social media, the ‘gospel truth’ was that the money found was proceeds looted from the ongoing dams’ scandals in the country where DCI George Kinoti is investigation loss of billions of shillings.
This made Nairobians camp outside the Barclays Queensway branch as they shouted Pesa zetu! Pesa zetu!
Others said they wanted a share of the ‘loot’.
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