Detectives from Kamukunji Police Station closed in on a sitting Kitui County lawmaker along Mfangano Street on Friday, ending another stretch of alleged phone thefts in Nairobi’s Central Business District that CCTV cameras had already begun to map. Cyrus Kisavi Musyoka, the MCA for Ikanga/Kyatune Ward, was taken into custody after investigators matched him to three separate incidents reported in August and September 2026. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations said actionable intelligence and the footage itself drove the identification, placing the elected official at the center of the reported thefts.
The arrest did more than interrupt one series of cases. It also surfaced an outstanding warrant tied to Criminal Case No. 112/303/2024 at Makadara Law Courts. In that earlier matter Musyoka had been charged with stealing, released on bond, and then failed to appear as required. He remains in custody undergoing processing ahead of arraignment while the DCI has stressed that position and status will not shield anyone from facing the courts.
This is not the first time the same name has appeared in Nairobi theft files. In September 2024 Musyoka was reportedly caught taking phones from a shop in the CBD, confronted by members of the public, and beaten before officers detained him at Kamukunji. Months later, on 8 February 2025, a parcel of mobile phone accessories valued at roughly KSh 1.9 million vanished from Buscar Courier Services on River Road; the items had been booked for a client in Mombasa. CCTV later showed the MCA leaving with the parcel. When he returned to the same office in early June 2025 he was recognized, held by private security, and handed to police. He had not disclosed his status as an elected official at the time. Detectives confirmed the identification and transferred him for further processing.
Separate proceedings have also touched the MCA. In February 2025 he was charged at a Kitui court with obtaining the registration of motor vehicle KCM 760Z by false pretenses, along with counts of conspiracy, forgery, uttering false documents, and making a false claim while serving in public office. Prosecutors alleged that on 12 January 2023 he submitted a vehicle reimbursement claim of KSh 2,212,000 to the Kitui County Assembly that he knew to be false. He pleaded not guilty and was released on bond of KSh 500,000.
The pattern that emerges from the successive police statements and court filings is of a sitting ward representative repeatedly linked by CCTV and eyewitness accounts to the loss of phones and related goods in the capital, even as he continues to hold office in Kitui. Ordinary traders and pedestrians in the CBD bear the immediate cost when handsets disappear from shops or streets; courier firms absorb losses when high-value parcels never reach their destinations. The repeated appearances before police and the courts raise a sharper question about the standards applied to those elected to manage public resources and represent constituents who themselves struggle to replace a stolen phone.
DCI has indicated that investigations into the August and September incidents will continue and that any other individuals linked to the same reports will be pursued. Musyoka is expected to be presented in court to answer the latest allegations. For residents of Ikanga/Kyatune Ward and for Nairobi’s street-level economy, the immediate issue is whether the cycle of reported theft, arrest, bond, and reappearance finally breaks.
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