A Nigerian man is assisting Kenya authorities with their investigations after he was arrested with $251, 000 in fake currency.

51-year-old Henry Omoaka was arrested at Malaika Apartments in South B on Wednesday afternoon. While arresting him, the police also found bhang and cocaine at his apartment.

After his arrest, the suspect claimed that he was a scriptwriter and the fake currency was to be used in a movie scene.

When questioned further about the movie they were making, he could not remember the title nor the people who he was working for.

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He later claimed that some people, among them Kenyans and Nigerians, had fixed him.

Police also found that he had outdated travel documents.

Omoaka lived alone in the rented apartment and denied knowledge of fake or money laundering dealings.

Detectives said the fake money, in heaps of the said currencies, was used to fleece unsuspecting Kenyans of their cash.

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