Transcript of The Police Interview with Blogger Dennis Itumbi Revealed

Sometime last year blogger and investigative journalist was arrested for allegedly hacking Hague-based ICC’s mails and even detained for a few days for questioning before being released. Whatever transpired during the interview has been scanty. However, one Eric Ng’eno managed to obtain the transcript of the interview. Take a look at it below (N/B It’s quite long so, be patient);

TO:

The Commissioner of Police,

Police Headquarters,

Vigilance House,

Harambee Avenue,

NAIROBI

THRO’

The Provincial Police Officer,

Central Province,

Nyeri,

THRO’

The Officer Commanding Police Division,

Embu

Dear Sir,

RE: TRANSCRIPT OF THE POLICE INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS ITUMBI, A SUSPECTED VIOLENT CRIMINAL.

Sir, please refer to your signal – DELTA-ECHO-NOVEMBER-NOVEMBER-INDIA-SIERRA – ICC – HACKING – transmitted to Embu Station signal room on Tuesday at 0612 on 20-3-2012. In that connection, Sir, please find herewith the following –

(a) A transcript of the interrogation of the suspect.

(b) My forwarding report

for your further action and guidance.

Sir, I remain ever

yours faithfully

vigilant and diligent,

Supt. Fury Hasira,

CHIEF INVESTIGATOR,

SPECIAL AND SERIOUS CRIMES UNIT,

EMBU COUNTY.

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TRANSCRIPT OF THE POLICE INTERVIEW WITH DENNIS ITUMBI, A SUSPECTED VIOLENT CRIMINAL.

Present:

Supt. Fury Hasira

Insp. Ignoramus Hajui

Cpl. Kimbia Haraka

Det. Arrest Kamata

The Suspect, Dennis Itumbi (unrepresented)

Supt Fury Hasira: Kwanza kabisa, so that these things go smoothly,….

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: Are you offering me a whisky, then?

Supt Fury Hasira: Hakuna pombe kwa station, lazima nirecord kwamba ume-waive your right to be represented in this interview.

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: But I haven’t! No one has asked me, and in fact, I demand to call my lawyer now. The Constitution……..

Supt, Fury Hasira: Ehe. Hiyo yote tumesikia thousands of time. Thousands of time. This is for your own good.

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: How is any of this good for me?

Supt Fury Hasira: Tuko wapi, wewe mjuaji?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: Si tuko Embu police station?

Supt Fury Hasira: Unaniuliza?

Det Arrest Kamata: Actually, sir, you are officially logged as being detained in Muthaiga Police Station. Kuwa Mpole, uone mafuta Turkana.

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: But we are in Embu!

Cpl Kimbia Haraka: Wee, suspect. You hacker! Afadhali ucooperate. It is for your own good.

Supt Fury Hasira: Do we proceed, or not?

(Dennis Itumbi stays silent)

Supt Fury Hasira: (to recording offiicer):Andika voluntary.

(To Dennis Itumbi):Basi, hii files uliiba ni za nani?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: Sijaiba files zozote. I am not a thief.

Supt Hasira: Tumeelezwa kwamba wewe ni violent robber. Before you stole those files, you hacked their owner, na ni files za International Criminal Court huko Hague.

Insp Ignoramus Hajui: Utusaidie hivi; tell us everything okay?, and we’ll see if we can leave you alone, or charge you a little bit.Okay?

Dennis Itumbi: The documents are not actual physical files

Supt Fury Hasira (apoplectic, loudly banging the table): kijana, wacha ujinga. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. A very dangerous thing. Unatarajiaje wewe…. How do you expect us, grown up adults, to swallow that ujinga yako, kwani the files are spiritual?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: They are virtual files.

Insp Ignoramus Hajui: Virtual files ni ya chuma? Where are they?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: They are on a website.

Det. Arrest Kamata (speaking into radio): Haiya, please get the Land Cruiser ready, andika destination WEBSITE kwa Work Ticket na ufike hapa mara moja. Pia ambia Accounts watengeneze imprest ya six officers; mimi, OCS, corporal na inspector, travelling to Website for two days, driver, gari, fuel, everything. Confirm, officer, over?

Insp Ignoramus Hajui: Haiya, Bwana Suspect Dennis Itumbi, we are now making progress. Sasa we ni rafiki yangu.Okay? Tutaenda breakfast sa hii tu. Mi ‘tanunua.Okay? Now we have a scene of crime. A little more information.Okay? Hii website iko wapi?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: In the internet.

All officers: Eh?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi:Iko internet. Mtandao.

Supt Fury Hasira,(with a knowing smile slowly lighting up his face): No, Bwana Suspect. We do not want the map. Wanaita nini hiyo map? Map-kuku? Kloklu map? That is not what we want.

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: I know. I’m really trying to help….

Insp Ignoramus Hajui: Suspect Dennis, let me try to make you understand by explaining with an example, okay? Now, where do your parents live?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: Embu county

Insp Ignoramus Hajui:Embu County, exactly! Okay? Now, si baba yakoa ako na shamba?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: Ako nayo. Hapo ndio home.

Insp Ignoramus Hajui: Precisely! That’s my brilliant boy! Okay? Hiyo shamba si iko na number?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: Sijui number yenyewe, lakini iko na LR Number.

Insp Ignoramus Hajui: now you are a cooperative suspect, okay? An excellent suspect, in short. We will announce

to all suspects to be like you, okay? Very excellent. LR number. This website, LR number yake iko wapi?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: Website haiko kwa ploti, it’s on the internet. Haina LR number.

Insp Ignoramus Hajui: Kwa hivyo we take down ‘unregistered’. Okay?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: All websites are on registered domains.

Insp Ignoramus Hajui: That is what we want.Okay? Registration number ni?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: it’s a web address…

Insp Ignoramus Hajui: I told you, my brother, a little knowledge is very dangerous. Now we have used so much time to get that information.Okay? Hiyo address ni…?

Suspect ?Dennis Itumbi: www……

Insp Ignoramus Hajui: Sawa, tuende utatuonyesha, then we’ll do our own research.Okay?

Suspect Dennis Itumbi: Just give me my MacBook and I’ll show you…

Supt Fury Hasira ( violently angry): Hiyo ni ujanja wako, eh? (banging the table). Unatuchezea akili ndio tukupe computer ucontact Press na mawakili, eh? Detective!

Det,. Arrest Kamata: Sir!

Supt Fury Hasira: Muingize hii kinyangarika kwa gari. We leave for the website now.

( Officers leave office, Suspect Itumbi is dragged by his pants, walking on his toes)

Insp Ignoramus Hajui: A little knowledge is dangerous, my friend. We know those tricks. If we do not find the website, you will be in trouble.

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REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ALLEGED HACKING INCIDENT COMMITTED BY SUSPECT DENNIS ITUMBI, A VIOLENT CRIMINAL, AT THE WEBSITE AREA, NAIROBI COUNTY.

The above mentioned team of crack detectives from the Terrorism and Serious Crimes Unit proceeded with the suspect with a view to finding the Website, which is the scene of the hacking incident. We suspected it to be located in the Zimmermann area of Nairobi. However, our counterparts at Kasarani could not determine exactly whee this website address is. Some thought it might be the name of a pub. We immediately contacted the Provincial Commissioner, to verify from Liquor Licensing records whether a bar called Website exists. We obtained a negative answer.

After a whole day suspect driving along every road, reserve, path and easement in the area of interest, we saw no place, and found no one who knows where Website is. the suspect was adamant in his obviously deceitful answer that Website doesn’t actually exist physically.

At 2045 hours, we deposited the suspect at Muthaiga police station, and generated a signal to all police stations in Nairobi, Kiambu, Embu, and Kajiado counties to help us trace the location of Website. All responses were negative.

Finally, our cyber-crimes detective arrived from Somalia, and confirmed the suspect’s information regarding the whereabouts of the Website place.

FINDINGS/CONCLUSIONS

1. There is massive collusion in relation incident. The suspect seems to have enlisted our own officers in perpetrating the hacking incident and covering it up.

2. Unfortunately, because we have not been to the scene of crime, we have no witnesses to the hacking incident.

3. For the reason given in 2 above, we have not been able to trace the weapons and other instruments that the suspect may have used in the hacking.

4. For the same reasons, the victim of the hacking has not been found. No reports of injuries consistent with violent and armed hacking have been reported to any of the stations enlisted in this investigation.

5. The suspect persists in his dishonest testimony that the weapons used in the violent incident were a modem and a computer. We have seen both devices and confirm that they cannot be used to inflict injuries consistent with the word hacking. Indeed, both are, at best, soft, blunt objects that cannot be used to hack anything.

6.Once again, the cyber-crimes detective seems to agree with the suspect’s version in respect of the weapons.

7.The stolen files have not been recovered. Since we are closely monitoring the suspect and our cyber-crimes detective, we trust that there will be no opportunity to tamper, hide or destroy the files before investigations are complete.

RECOMMENDATIONS

a. A comprehensive internal review and investigations be conducted with a view to instituting disciplinary action in terms of the Police Standing Orders against the cyber-crimes detective, Det. Poor Masikini, and any other officer(s) who may have colluded with him and the suspect in obstructing investigations.

b. the Minister for Internal Security be requested to permit the investigation team to resort to more robust and efficient interrogation techniques to obtain the truth from the suspect.

c. The Ministry of Lands and the Survey of Kenya be requested to assist in identifying the location of Website

d. All hospitals within the jurisdiction of the stations copied be directed to forward all records of hacking victims treated over the past 90 days.

e. The investigation team’s tour of duty be extended indefinitely with imprest and full allowances until the investigation is completed.

f. The investigation team be augmented with the following excellent officers, namely Privates: Eunice Mwikali, Rehema Omar, Mwanaali Hamisi, Truphena Mwaangi, Evelyne Achieng, Dorcas Chepkoros, and Phanice Muhanji.

Sir, I remain ever

yours faithfully

vigilant and diligent,

Supt. Fury Hasira,

CHIEF INVESTIGATOR,

SPECIAL AND SERIOUS CRIMES UNIT,

EMBU COUNTY.