Jubilee digital strategist Pauline Njoroge has disclosed the ruses employed by Malindi police to try to get her arrested.
According to Njoroge, the arrest warrant was issued on Wednesday last week, and detectives from the DCI began tracing her shortly after.
In a statement released on Thursday, she described how a detective called her claiming to be a banker and offering her classified papers.
The caller had instructed her to meet him alone.
“On Friday evening, I received a strange phone call. The caller had identified himself as a person working for a bank. This person claimed that he had some confidential documents that he wanted to give me in Malindi and asked me to go alone. This startled me because I had not posted anywhere that I was at the Coast. So how did he know? Anyway, I decided to ignore,” Njoroge said.
Another called her friend on Saturday and claimed to be enquiring if she offered tour services to Mombasa, from Malindi.
“Nduta also received a call on Saturday morning from a person who wanted to know whether she does tours in Mombasa. We discussed these things and decided to carry on with our day,” Njoroge said.
She noted that as soon as they left their hotel to visit the Gedi Ruins, Hells Kitchen and the first Church in Malindi, they found a double cabin vehicle parked outside the hotel.
Her friend then commented that the occupants looked like cops but their driver rubbished the remarks, saying they could be people from the neighbourhood.
Soon after they joined the highway, the same vehicle drove past them, blocked the way and asked them to accompany them to the Malindi police station.
“We passed the vehicle and proceeded to join the tarmac road. We had hardly gone a kilometre before the very same vehicle blocked us on the road and asked us to follow them to Watamu Police Station,” Njoroge stated.
“I was however able to alert my advocate and a core group of friends that we had been picked up by the police.
By Mpasho