Businessman Samuel Brian Yongo Otumba
Businessman Samuel Brian Yongo Otumba‘s case where he is charged with threatening to kill the managing director of Granada Trading Company Limited has commenced.
During the hearing of the case yesterday before the Milimani court, the managing director of Granada Trading Company Limited Ranjendra Shanghani who is the complainant described the occurrences before senior principal magistrate Dolphina Alego.
Yongo was charged with the offenses of threatening to kill Ranjendra and cyber harassment.
Ranjendra who is a former banker told the court that he knew Yongo back in 1994 as a customer in the bank he was working while applying for a loan and later he came to see him in the company of former Nairobi county governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko.
He informed the court that despite knowing him they were not in any business although he used to befriend him claiming to transact businesses with the late businessman Jacob Juma and having connections with prominent people in the government.
Ranjendra played before the court the conversation he recorded on WhatsApp Messenger between him and Yongo to confirm the allegations of insults and threats to kill.
He explained to the court how the threats inflicted fear on him and his family in the middle of the night when the call was made leading him to call the DCIO Parklands Police Station for security purposes where later he recorded the statement,
“Your honour I was totally enthrilled by the call threatening that he is going to send hitmen to do away with me and I don’t have any business with him,” Ranjendra said.
He produced a photo in court which was sent by Yongo via WhatsApp where he (Ranjendra) was one time had been attacked by gunmen who shot him in the head but miraculously survived,
“He sent the photo of me when I was shot by thugs adding that he knew I was shot but I survived and he is ready to send those who knows how to shoot once and kill,” he said.
He told the court that the threats exceeded his fear since the perpetrators of the attack had never been arrested to date and he assumed that Yongo might know something about the offense.
Rajendra prayed to the court for intervention to protect him and people who might be going through the same.
According to the charges, Yongo was charged that on April 12, this year at an unknown place within the country without lawful excuse uttered a threat to kill words to Ranjendra.
The hearing will continue in February next year.
