Shortly after she was declared wanted by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI), private investigator Jane Wawira Mugo has come out to clear her name.
Speaking in Nairobi on Thursday, she claimed that she is being targeted after a fallout with the police in the course of a job she did for a Briton who was having issues with his relatives.
She said that the police have been trailing her, possibly with the intention of harming her, an issue she has raised with the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHCR).
She has since sought the help of the commission, requesting for asylum and complaining that the police are bitter with her, which is putting her life in danger.
“Following the petitioner’s success, the petitioner has constantly been tracked in her movements by vehicles which she is apprehensive of carrying the officers who seek to stop her at all costs,” she says in a sworn affidavit.
She added that she is not new to such jobs, and has registered several successes, including playing an important role in the National Youth Service (NYS) scandals where billions were lost.
According to Wawira, she helped detectives identify the accounts where the money was deposited, but was only paid Sh200,000 from the agreed Sh1 million.
In 2015, she claimed, she helped nab a murder suspect, a job which saw her work undercover as a bar maid.
The job, she told the Nation, saw her posted in Western Kenya, before trailing the suspect all the way to Kawangware where he would later be arrested at a church.
She told the paper that she also helped the police recover Sh50 million from rogue lawyers who had received over Sh250 million from a politician as payment for a piece of land in Upper Hill.
The investigator says that the lawyers had kept an extra amount for themselves instead of handing it over to the landowner.
Wawira also denied claims of engaging in robbery with violence or threatening people with her gun as is alleged by the DCI, which has even acquired a warrant of arrest against her.