Flutterwave Payment Technologies Limited is on the spot for allegedly extorting Kenyans and defrauding them after they paid for non-existent sex parties in Thika, May last year.
Vulnerable and naive young Kenyans allegedly paid up Sh 1, 500 each to the company through a pay bill account provided in the advertising poster. The parties were scheduled for May 4th and 31st 2019 all starting from 10pm at an undisclosed house in Makongeni Estate. None of which happened.
A woman -Clara Wanjiku- has now sued the financial services company that help set up the sex parties paybills for using her as the contact person in the fraud.
Wanjiku says she left the company in October 2018 after resigning a month earlier but the firm retained her as a contact person for the aggregate pay bill account leading to what she says is psychologically torture by victims defrauded after they paid for the non-existent sex parties.
“The [defendant] company was negligent in failure to remove her as the contact person for their pay bill contact person which caused her to be perceived as a person of interests in regards to the investigations surrounding the alleged sex party thereby causing her severe emotional distress and psychological anguish.” Wanjiku says through lawyer Angela Mwandumbo in suit papers.
Thika DCI boss Hussein Bakari said there were no parties reported to have taken place and none of those who had paid reported to police.
“We were doing our investigations because the activities were immoral but not because there was any complaint.”
