Police in Lamu have arrested a man who was dressed as a woman after they received a report that a girl of suspicious character had been spotted.
The report was made by Haidar fakii, a chief from Langoni location.
The NPS lamu officers who were on patrol along Kashmir area visited the house and managed to arrest a person who was in females Muslim clothes namely; jalbab, buibui, deraa, sidiria and rinda.
She told the officers that her name is Farida Chemutai, 24, but the owner of the house Idris kororo a Somali male adult, managed to escape when he spotted the police.
At the police station, a thorough search was conducted on the individual who was found to be a male gender, with the name of Mutuku Nzambia. from Makueni county, Kithuku location.
He has been communicating using the following numbers, 0705714999 and 0773632242. He arrived in Lamu on 11/3/2019 from Nairobi.
He claims that he was invited to Lamu by a female friend named Zainab Wambua whom he’s yet to meet, ever since he arrived. He is now in police custody pending multi agency interrogation.