Saturday, 29 January 2022 – The get-rich-quick schemes by a section of Kenyans appear to have gone a notch higher after two suspects were arrested with crushed padlocks disguised as gold. Rogers Kipkogei and Collins Chavera, posing as agents of a Congo-based gold baron, obtained over Sh1 million from a gold investor, after showing him dust from crushed padlocks. The victim who fell for the trick deposited the money to different Mpesa accounts, given to him by the suspects. In what detectives believe to be a well-choreographed syndicate, hundreds of SIM cards from local mobile telecommunication…
