The Football Kenya Federation presidential aspirant Sam Nyamweya has written to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation to probe and prosecute persons behind the fictitious Twitter handles attributed his name.
Nyamweya, who has declared his intention to reclaim the football presidential seat, is not on social media, but there are three accounts bearing his name and that tweet messages had been attributed to him.
The accounts have been active of late with political messages that attack his opponents, but according to Nyamweya, those are the clandestine work of people with no good intention but to injure his reputation.
Now Nyamweya wants those behind the fake accounts arrested and charged for cyber crime related offenses that carries a fine of upto KSh5 million.
“The fictitious accounts have continued to portray me in bad light, tweet messages purported to have originated me, attribute messages and aligning me to a political formation that I’m not part of,” said Nyamweya in letter to the DCI Cuber Crime department.
“Being an opinion leader and a national leader, this has raised grave concerns to my family, my business partners and the constituency that looks upon me for direction and guidance and it damaging to my status and profile.
“Kindly but urgently investigate and apprehend the cyber criminals behind these fictitious accounts and have them charged for the offence.
“I have been watching my friend who brought to it’s knees the Largest & Oldest East African Football institution, claim he’s been sent by ‘stakeholders’ to help steer Kenyan Football. No stakeholder in his/her right mind would seek redemption from an International failure,” read a message in one of the fake accounts, a statement that could be intercepted to have been directed at former Cecafa secretary General, Nicholas Musonye who has also expressed interest for the same seat.
It is not clear how far DCI will have to go with their investigation as they try to unearth the faces behind the offense, but according to source, the investigators will start with the FIFA Goal Project where it is suspected that some of the accounts are being operated from.
A cyber crime offense carries a fine not exceeding Ksh5 million or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or both.
