Life in crime! Details of other offences by Nairobi tycoon who washes hands with champagne

Piece by: Grace Kerongo
Lifestyle

Lucas Mbadi a.k.a Steve Mark Oduk is known as the life of the party and described by many as flamboyant and wealthy.

He was thrust into the limelight when he closed down Casablanca to throw a lavish party for his bae, Aeedah Bambi.

Later he spent a cool Ksh 2.5m to throw her a baby shower a year later.

On Thursday, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations seized fake $1 million and 147 gold bars hidden in a safe in Kilimani, Nairobi.

Oduk was among those arrested during the raid at the Plan 254 Club, which he owns.

It turns out that he is a suspect in a number of cases in court involving fake gold and money laundering.

In May, 2019, he was part of 16 men who were arrested at a house in Kilimani that had fake gold bars and other contraband.

Eight cars of different makes, including Subaru, Mercedes Benz and Toyota Land Cruiser Prado, were also impounded during the raid which was led by Kilimani Police Station DCIO, Fatma Hadi.

After being arrested, Mr Oduk failed to provide an identity card and only told the officers that his name was Stephen Mark.

That is not all, according to court documents, on October 14, 2013, a person identified as Stephen Mark Oduk, dressed in police uniform, was part of a gang in Nairobi that kidnapped two children of Indian origin: Ahwal Kaul Mahjan and Abhita Kaur Mahjan.

He was in a group of other five men who included a police officer who had been interdicted from the service for being part of a gang that stole millions from an ATM machine in Nairobi.

The group then demanded that the family that runs a chain of hotels in East Africa gives them Ksh86 million in order for the two children to be released.

They were later arrested in Matasia, Ngong, where they were hiding the girls and arraigned in court over the kidnap incident.