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Suspect ‘lured’ old woman to obtain birth certificate
Standard Digital News
Willis Oketch
3/25/2014
Excerpt:
Kenya: British terror suspect Jermaine Grant induced an elderly Kenyan woman to pose as his grandmother to enable him get a birth certificate to become a Kenyan citizen two years ago.
This is according to evidence adduced in court by a village elder from Tausa sub location in Taita-Taveta County on Friday.
The witness, Samuel Makosa Alexander, disclosed that Grant and a colleague identified only as Mustapha presented themselves to a sub-chief as grandsons of the unidentified woman they had accompanied to the administrator. The duo’s tricks began to falter when the woman was subjected to intense interrogation and she began to contradict herself.
As she sweltered under intense questioning, Grant and Mustapha slipped away, pretending to be communicating on cellphone.
This testimony was adduced in Grant’s trial where he is charged with trying to illegally obtain a Kenyan birth certificate and an identity card.
Unidentified woman
The witness said the unidentified woman who posed as Grant’s grandmother failed to prove how she was related to the Briton.
Alexander told Mombasa Resident Magistrate Anastasia Ndungu that before Grant and Mustapha went to the assistant chief’s office at Tausa, a woman had approached him to help her grandchildren secure birth certificates.
Makosa was giving evidence in a case in which Jermaine Grant alias Peter Joseph, alias Mohamed Ali, alias Robert Mwakio Muati, has denied on diverse dates between September 19 and 26, 2011 at Tausa Division in Taita-Taveta, jointly with others not before the court, being a British citizen attempted to obtain a Kenyan birth certificate in the name of Robert Mwakio Mwate, by false pretence. Grant, represented by lawyer Chacha Mwita, has denied the charges.
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Standard Digital News
Willis Oketch
3/25/2014
Excerpt:
Kenya: British terror suspect Jermaine Grant induced an elderly Kenyan woman to pose as his grandmother to enable him get a birth certificate to become a Kenyan citizen two years ago.
This is according to evidence adduced in court by a village elder from Tausa sub location in Taita-Taveta County on Friday.
The witness, Samuel Makosa Alexander, disclosed that Grant and a colleague identified only as Mustapha presented themselves to a sub-chief as grandsons of the unidentified woman they had accompanied to the administrator. The duo’s tricks began to falter when the woman was subjected to intense interrogation and she began to contradict herself.
As she sweltered under intense questioning, Grant and Mustapha slipped away, pretending to be communicating on cellphone.
This testimony was adduced in Grant’s trial where he is charged with trying to illegally obtain a Kenyan birth certificate and an identity card.
Unidentified woman
The witness said the unidentified woman who posed as Grant’s grandmother failed to prove how she was related to the Briton.
Alexander told Mombasa Resident Magistrate Anastasia Ndungu that before Grant and Mustapha went to the assistant chief’s office at Tausa, a woman had approached him to help her grandchildren secure birth certificates.
Makosa was giving evidence in a case in which Jermaine Grant alias Peter Joseph, alias Mohamed Ali, alias Robert Mwakio Muati, has denied on diverse dates between September 19 and 26, 2011 at Tausa Division in Taita-Taveta, jointly with others not before the court, being a British citizen attempted to obtain a Kenyan birth certificate in the name of Robert Mwakio Mwate, by false pretence. Grant, represented by lawyer Chacha Mwita, has denied the charges.
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View the complete article at:
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/theco...th-certificate