Police have reportedly arrested three people in
connection with the killing of an electoral commission official and his female
companion.
And yesterday, police gave a new account of the last moments of Christopher CHRIS MUSANDO, the ICT deputy director at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), whose body was found in Muguga Forest, Kiambu County, on Saturday. The body of Maryanne Wairimu Ngumbu was also found metres away.
In a statement, police explained that Mr CHRIS MUSANDO was on Friday night spotted at Club 7 along Koinange Street with Ms Ngumbu and another man.
A waiter told the police that the man left earlier but CHRIS MUSANDO and Ngumbu left at around 1am, according to the statement by police spokesman George Kinoti.
CHRIS MUSANDO’s vehicle, a Land Rover Discovery registration number KCB 262Q, was thereafter captured by highway surveillance cameras at the Uhuru Highway/Haile Selassie Avenue roundabout at 2.24am and later at the Bunyala Road/Uhuru Highway roundabout heading towards Mombasa Road.
The car had two occupants – a male and a female, presumably CHRIS MUSANDO and Ngumbu. But at 2.34am, when it was again captured by cameras heading towards Nyayo Stadium, only the male driver was in the vehicle. The vehicle was later spotted along the Ring Road Ngara/Juja Road intersection heading towards Thika Road at 2.47am, when it vanished from police monitors.
But in an earlier account established by The Standard, throughout the drive captured on camera, CHRIS MUSANDO was in the driver’s seat and there was a stocky woman in the front passenger seat. Two men, described as “young” were in the back seat.
The vehicle is reported to have made some stops – at one point, CHRIS MUSANDO steps out and is captured speaking on a mobile phone. The female occupant comes out of the car and stands next to him.
According to the official police statement, the unidentified man who was last seen with the two could hold the key to the killings.
But it is unclear what became of the three – the stocky woman and two men reported in the earlier account. A police source said the three suspects in custody could be paraded either today or tomorrow. Their identities remain unclear. The bodies of CHRIS MUSANDO and Ngumbu were taken to City Mortuary at 11.50am on Saturday. The police statement indicates investigators got information about two unknown bodies at the morgue on Monday.
And yesterday, the police statement indicated a water vendor in Roysambu, where the car was found on Sunday, had reported it had been parked near their building about two weeks ago.
Meanwhile, police have contacted two mobile phone service providers to obtain phone records to determine individual(s) CHRIS MUSANDO called before his death.
Detectives say they cannot trace clothes and other personal belongings he had before his death. They want to know where CHRIS MUSANDO’s three mobile phones and the clothes he wore on Friday are as they try to unravel the mystery surrounding his killing.
The team from the Homicide Department at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters asked two mobile phone service providers to supply them with CHRIS MUSANDO’s and Ngumbu’s call data.
“We understand (CHRIS MUSANDO) was on phone most of the time he was captured on camera and even sent messages to his colleagues and some friends. The data from the phones will be helpful,” said an official aware of the probe.
And yesterday, police gave a new account of the last moments of Christopher CHRIS MUSANDO, the ICT deputy director at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), whose body was found in Muguga Forest, Kiambu County, on Saturday. The body of Maryanne Wairimu Ngumbu was also found metres away.
In a statement, police explained that Mr CHRIS MUSANDO was on Friday night spotted at Club 7 along Koinange Street with Ms Ngumbu and another man.
A waiter told the police that the man left earlier but CHRIS MUSANDO and Ngumbu left at around 1am, according to the statement by police spokesman George Kinoti.
CHRIS MUSANDO’s vehicle, a Land Rover Discovery registration number KCB 262Q, was thereafter captured by highway surveillance cameras at the Uhuru Highway/Haile Selassie Avenue roundabout at 2.24am and later at the Bunyala Road/Uhuru Highway roundabout heading towards Mombasa Road.
The car had two occupants – a male and a female, presumably CHRIS MUSANDO and Ngumbu. But at 2.34am, when it was again captured by cameras heading towards Nyayo Stadium, only the male driver was in the vehicle. The vehicle was later spotted along the Ring Road Ngara/Juja Road intersection heading towards Thika Road at 2.47am, when it vanished from police monitors.
But in an earlier account established by The Standard, throughout the drive captured on camera, CHRIS MUSANDO was in the driver’s seat and there was a stocky woman in the front passenger seat. Two men, described as “young” were in the back seat.
The vehicle is reported to have made some stops – at one point, CHRIS MUSANDO steps out and is captured speaking on a mobile phone. The female occupant comes out of the car and stands next to him.
According to the official police statement, the unidentified man who was last seen with the two could hold the key to the killings.
But it is unclear what became of the three – the stocky woman and two men reported in the earlier account. A police source said the three suspects in custody could be paraded either today or tomorrow. Their identities remain unclear. The bodies of CHRIS MUSANDO and Ngumbu were taken to City Mortuary at 11.50am on Saturday. The police statement indicates investigators got information about two unknown bodies at the morgue on Monday.
And yesterday, the police statement indicated a water vendor in Roysambu, where the car was found on Sunday, had reported it had been parked near their building about two weeks ago.
Meanwhile, police have contacted two mobile phone service providers to obtain phone records to determine individual(s) CHRIS MUSANDO called before his death.
Detectives say they cannot trace clothes and other personal belongings he had before his death. They want to know where CHRIS MUSANDO’s three mobile phones and the clothes he wore on Friday are as they try to unravel the mystery surrounding his killing.
The team from the Homicide Department at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters asked two mobile phone service providers to supply them with CHRIS MUSANDO’s and Ngumbu’s call data.
“We understand (CHRIS MUSANDO) was on phone most of the time he was captured on camera and even sent messages to his colleagues and some friends. The data from the phones will be helpful,” said an official aware of the probe.
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