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JKUAT Student Killed In Cold Blood In Juja

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Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) based in Juja, Kiambu County, are hunting down three suspects who killed a 23-year-old university student in cold blood on Monday night.

The killers are said to have escaped with the victim’s mobile phone and other valuables.

DCI boss George Kinoti in statement on Tuesday evening said Joel Juma, a fourth year Industrial Chemistry student at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), was stabbed two times on the chest by one of the thugs before they fled to darkness in the 2am incident.

According to Juma’s girlfriend who is a Law student at the Mt Kenya University, Parklands Campus, she had escorted her boyfriend to get some revision materials from his classmates a few blocks away, when the blood thirst gang accosted them.

The girlfriend had gone to visit his lover last evening at around 6pm and found him studying for his examinations. She prepared a meal that they shared together before they retired to bed.

However, Juma later woke up and embarked on his books but at 2am, he asked her to escort him to where a classmate lived a few blocks away, to get some reference material that he needed before morning.

It is while on their way when the thugs attacked them near hotel Lilies, demanding for money and mobile phones.

Two of them descended on Juma with blows and kicks before stabbing him twice on the left side of his chest, leaving him lying on the ground in a pool of blood.

The third assailant manhandled the lady who hadn’t carried any valuable and luckily, left her unscathed. Local guards who heard the commotion rushed to the scene and together with the heavily shaken girlfriend, helped Juma to a local dispensary where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Detectives have since established that pockets of a notorious gang, which escaped the ongoing operation to rid Kayole and Dandora of criminals, has found a safe haven in Gachororo, where they are regrouping with the aim of establishing a fiefdom.

Consequently, a major undercover operation to completely annihilate the gang has been launched in the area. Detectives from the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) and the Special Service Unit (SSU) have been dispatched conduct the operation.

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German National Found Dead After Heated Argument With Nyeri Wife

by Yahil Felix
written by Yahil Felix

A German national was recently found dead after a heated argument with his wife.

According to DCI chief George Kinoti, the 75 year-old Weise Klaus Armin, was involved in a heated argument with his 38-year-old wife Rosemary Wangui before his lifeless body was found hanging from the doorframe of their bedroom.

According to reports, Wangui had gone to see her ailing mother in Othaya on the fateful day.

When she returned later, she found his husband breathing fire, accusing her of infidelity.

To avoid this, she flee from her home after the husband threatened to kill her with a knife. It is then alleged that he locked himself in their bedroom where his lifeless body was later found.

When the police arrived in the couple’s home at Muhasibu Area in Gamerock in Nyeri, they broke into the bedroom and found Armin’s body hanging from a rope.

“A team of homicide experts from DCI headquarters with a back up teak from Crime Research and intelligence bureau as well as crime scene detectives analyzed the scene forensically, took statements from various sources and are awaiting for the deceased’s kin to arrive from Germany for a post mortem,” said Kinoti.

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LSK Comes To DPP’s Defense Amidst Wrangles With DCI

by Yahil Felix
written by Yahil Felix

The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has come to defend the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji’s decision not to charge Court of Appeal judge Sankale Ole Kantai over the murder of Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen.

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The group has said only Haji has powers to charge or not, depending on the evidence produced during investigations.

LSK president Nelson Havi said the tussle between Haji and Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti over the judge is unnecessary as the latter does not have powers to charge.

“A review of the documents filed in court in Petition E334 f 2021, Justice Sankale Ole Kantai versus Inspector General of Police and others is indicative of brazen, unconstitutional and unlawful attempt by the DCI to stray, foray into the constitutional mandate of the DPP and in the process, imperil the functions of the DPP,” said Havi.

On Tueday, Cohen’s family lawyers filed a petition on behalf of his sister Gabriel Hannan Van Straten, seeking to remove Haji from office for refusing to charge the senior judge.

The DPP cleared him but Tob Cohen’s sister claims he was involved in the murder.

The sister claims that the DPP has demonstrated abuse of power and office by restraining the DCI from arresting Judge Sankale over the murder.

In response, Haji said he will reply to the allegations once Public Service Commission in accordance with Article 158 of the constitution.

However, LSK president claims the DCI is involved in the petition. He alleges that DCI are striving to control DPP on the matter.

LSK argues that, based on the Constitution, Office of the Director of Public Prosecution Act 2013 and the National Police Service Commission Act 2011 and the guidelines on the decision to charge 2019, the DCI cannot instate charges without the DPP’s permission.

According to Havi, the creation of DPP as an independent office was o offer checks and balances and to prevent abuse of power of criminal investigation.

DCI argues that the judge was involved in the murder as he constantly communicated with the tycoon’s widow Sarah Wairimu Cohen six hours after the murder of the businessman.

John Gachomo, a senior assistant Inspector General of Police based at DCI headquarters claims forensic investigations places the judge at the scene of crime.

“On of the calls between the petitioner and Sarah Wairimu Kamotho lasted for six minutes continuously. The late Tob Cohen was murdered about six hours after the suspicious communication,” argued Gachomo.

In court, Gachomo also claims the judge illegally transferred Cohen shares and allegedly helped Wairimu change her statement. But the DPP says the evidence from DCI shows nothing to collaborate their claims.

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House Help From Hell Kills 7 Year-Old Boy And Seriously Injures Mother

by Yahil Felix
written by Yahil Felix

A woman is currently in police custody after committing a heinous act against a family in Marigat Sub-county, in Baringo.

The suspect identified as Lydiah Jelagat Kipng’etich attacked her employer’s family on September 24, 2021, killing their 7 year-old son and seriously injured the mother.

According to DCI Chief, Kinoti, the woman armed herself with a rungu and sneaked into the family’s bedroom at night and attacked them while asleep. The family is said to belong to a prison warden based in Rumuruti and had given the 24 year-old woman a job as a nanny.

“As she (mother) raised distress calls amidst excruciating pain with blood oozing from her arms, head and neck, the woman knew not that her 7 year-old son had been the first target of the house help from hell,” said Kinoti.

It is reported that the man of the house was away on duty when the suspect struck. Neighbors soon responded to her wailing and thronged the area but the suspect had vanished in darkness.

“It was in the process of getting the woman ready for hospital that the neighbors stumbled upon the boy’s cold body hidden under the bed. He had some blood oozing from the mouth, with no physical injuries,” said Kinoti in a blood-chilling narration on their social media platform.

The victim was taken to Nyandarua County Referral Hospital for treatment while the boy’s body is in the same hospital’s morgue awaiting autopsy.

Over the weekend, detectives from the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau from the DCI headquarters conjoined their counterparts from Baringo County and conducted a thorough search for the suspect in Kiptangwanyi and Kongasis areas of Gilgil Sub-county in Nakuru.

“After four ours of engaging detectives in cat and mouse games, the slipper suspect was flashed out of her hide out in a friend’s house in Kong’asis and taken to Marigat Police Station,” said Kinoti.

She will be arraigned at Kabarnet Law Courts on Tuesday.

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Two Families In Agony As Sons Die After Demanding Their Memory Cards

by Yahil Felix
written by Yahil Felix

Two families are currently mourning their loved ones after they were killed for demanding their memory cards. The two scenarios that occurred in different incidents have shocked many.

According to DCI Chief Kinoti, A 21 year-old man identified as Owino was hacked to death in Busia by one George Oduori last week using a machete when he went to demand for his memory card.

‘So incensed was Oduori that he killed Owino on the spot and buried his remains at a shallow grave in his farm, under the cover of darkness. Unbeknownst to the deceased, Oduori had become so obsessed with the contents in the memory card, that he could not contemplate parting with it, opting to kill its owner instead,” said Kinoti.

Reports said that Owino walked into Oduori’s compound at 9 pm at that day and demanded for his memory card. A furious Oduori struck him and left him dead in a pool of blood.

Oduori’s wife then reported the matter to the police on Friday evening after being threatened by the husband. The suspect was arrested and exhumed the body of the deceased for autopsy.

In another incident in Nairobi’s Huruma area, another family lost their school going son after being stabbed to death by a friend when the deceased demanded for his memory card on Friday night.

The form three student of Brainiac Secondary School succumbed to two stabs on the head and a third one on the chest. Reports say his assailant was unwilling to return the storage device, he brandished a knife and attacked the innocent boy.

Members of the public who found the 19 year-old writhing in pain and soaked with blood rushed him to the hospital. He lost his life while being treated. The police are currently pursuing the suspect who escaped after committing the crime.

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Man From Hell Throws Girlfriend Off Balcony, Kills Her Instantly

by Yahil Felix
written by Yahil Felix

Police have launched manhunt for a man who allegedly threw his lover off a balcony killing her instantly.

According to a report by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the man believed to be a foreign national threw his lover from a balcony at Sunny Side apartments in Nyali.

DCI boss George Kinoti in a statement said that the suspect flew the scene after committing the act which shook residents at the hotel.

It is reported that while a guard in the apartment was making his usual rounds, he heard a scream of a woman then followed by a loud bang meters from where he stood.

Shocked, he went to confirm what the falling object was only to identify it was a body of a half dressed woman laying in a pool of blood.

“The guard identified as Parsaoti Ole Morinket, took a flight towards the janitor’s room, where he informed him of the incident,” said Kinoti.

After visiting the scene, the identified the body to belong to a 25 year-old lady earlier invited to one of the rooms in the apartments by one Muyanga Suleiman.

They went to the room and found the doors open, suspect flee. Nyali-based detectives immediately responded after being reported and have launched a man-haunt for the suspect.

“A manhunt for the suspect into this murder most foul has since been launched, with a specialized detachment being deployed for his neck. His minute of arrest is nigh,” said Kinoti.

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Couple Accidentally Kill Their Eight Year-Old Child During Fight

by Yahil Felix
written by Yahil Felix

A couple is currently cooling their heels at Kilgoris Police Station after accidentally killing their eight year-old daughter. According to kinoti, Esther Kaiseyi and Amos Maengwe both 22 years and 30 years respectively engaged in a domestic brawl.

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“A domestic brawl between the couple iN Majengo, Kilgoris turned fatal after the man in an attempt to hit his wife with a wooden object missed the target

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Ngunjiri Wambugu Reports Ruto, Oscar Sudi And Johana Ng’eno to DCI

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Nyeri Town Member of Parliament Ngunjiri Wambugu has finally reached out to  Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti over politicians that have been using certain phrases in rallies.

In a letter shared on his Facebook page on Tuesday September 15, 2020, the lawmaker has argued that phrases like “Watu fulani” and “Watu wengine” may sound harmless but could be coded by politicians to fan violence against a section of Kenyans.

Wambugu has pointed out Kapseret Member of Parliament Oscar Sudi, his Emurua Dikirr counterpart Johana Ng’eno and the Deputy President William Ruto as the leaders who commonly use the phrases, which he termed as ambiguous.

He has likened the phrases to  “kwekwe” and “madoadoa” which were allegedly used to spread hate messages and incite ethnic violence by politicians during the 2007 General Election.

“Please note that the phrases “Watu fulani” and “watu wengine”are politically ambiguous. In current p[ublic political conversations these phrases are being assumed to refer to particular Kenyan political families. Others assume that these refer to particular Kenyan economic sector. However, some…fear that these phrases could as easily refer to a certain ethnic community,” reads part of his letter.

He said the phrases must be viewed  as dangerous as the “madoadoda” and “kwekwe” encountered in Kenya’s violent history.

Wambugu has therefore urged DCI Kinoti to investigate whether the phrases are meant to incite some sections of Kenyan society against others.

He demanded that appropriate charges be preferred against anyone who has used these phrases in political rallies, should they be found to have meant to incite Kenyans.

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Court Summons DCI Boss George Kinoti Over Rashid Echesa’s Vehicles

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti has been summoned to appear before Court for disobeying a court order directing the release of motor vehicles belonging to former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa.

A Kiambu Court Magistrate in an order issued on Friday June 26, 2020 directed Mr Kinoti to appear in court on July 3 to explain why the vehicles had not been released as directed.

According to the magistrate, the vehicles, Toyota Lexus, Ford Ranger and a Mercedes Benz E-350 were not part of the search warrant as issued by the court.

“You are hereby required to attend this court at 8am on July 3, 2020 in the above case to explain why you have not released motor vehicle as ordered by the court in the above case and remain in attendance until released,” reads the summon.

The order to release the three vehicles was issued by Senior Principal Magistrate Stella Atembo had on June 10.

The Magistrate ruled that the motor vehicles were seized without “any support or any law of order of the court with sufficient reasons contravenes the constitution which provides for the right to private property and opportunity to be heard.”

The vehicles were part of five vehicles impounded by the DCI at Echesa’s Karen home in March.

A Passat KAY 388A, KBZ 009J Toyota LandCruiser V8 and KBN 242N Toyota Mark X are said to have belonged to a Kisumu resident Esther Kabura.

Kabura accused the former minister of stealing her late husband’s Sh12 million luxury vehicles in 2016.

According to the widow, Echesa promised to look after her deceased spouse’s vehicles as she was involved in a family tussle but declined to release them after the demise of her husband.

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DCI Boss Kinoti Flies to US to Seek FBI Tactics

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti has flown to the United States to get a three-week FBI training.

Kinoti flew to the US last week to attend the Federal Bureau Investigations (FBI) executive training.

The training will go down at at the National Executive Institute.


He is the only detective from Africa considered for the high level training with the other four attendees drawn from Canada and Australia.

At least 15 top FBI officials will take the participants through strategic leadership development and current affairs during the three-week training.

The attendees – according to NEI’s website – must be heads of departments with more than 500 sworn officers serving a population of at least 250,000.

The first two weeks of the training will be held in Washington before the attendees are taken to Glasgow for the final bit of the course.

“NEI consists of three one-week training sessions throughout the year. Two of the sessions are hosted by the FBI Academy; the third is typically conducted overseas in concert with our global partners,” NEI’s website states.

“One of the most valuable aspects of NEI is the range and diversity of the executives, who bring immensely different levels of experience and perspectives.”

NEI has provided leadership development for bureau executives and for the heads of the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States and overseas.

Since 1976, more than 1,000 law enforcement executives have graduated from the institute.

Upon graduation, each executive is invited to join the NEI Associates (NEIA), a non-profit foundation that continues the education of these executives and sponsors various research projects.

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Ruto Hits Back at DCI Kinoti Over Murder of His Office Guard

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Deputy President Dr William Ruto has hit back at DCI boss George Kinoti over the murder of his Harambee Annex office guard, sergent Kipyegon Kenei.

Kenei, the policeman who was on duty when ex-Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa and his fake arms dealers held an illegal meeting at the DP’s office, was killed by powerful individuals.

DCI Kinoti on Thursday played Harambee Annex CCTV footages to the media, noting that Kenei was murdered, and his killers stage managed the scene to look like a suicide.

“We have identified the persons of interest and that will be the focus of our investigation going forward,” he told journalists moments after he addressed a lengthy press conference where he played CCTV footage showing Kenei’s last moments.

However, DP Ruto while hitting back at Kinoti said that the truth must be found on why, how and who killed sergent Kenei.

Ruto says Kenei’s family, his office and Kenyans want the truth and justice, and that culprits held to account.

According to the second in command, the drama, distortions, convenient half-truths and the smear campaigns in sponsored headlines amounts to criminal cover up.

“The truth MUST be found on WHY, HOW,and WHO killed Sgt kenei. The family, ODP,and kenyans want the TRUTH & JUSTICE and culprits held to account. The drama, distortions, convenient half-truths and the smear campaigns in sponsored headlines amounts to criminal cover up,” Ruto tweeted.

According to the investigators, Kenei had nothing to fear and was ready to spill the beans about what he knew regarding the fake arms deal that threw the DP’s office into the limelight.

Evidence gathered by the homicide detectives show Kenei’s house revealed a scenario of a gruesome murder stage-managed to look like a suicide.

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How Death of DP Ruto’s Guard Was Stage-managed to Look Like Suicide, DCI Kinoti Spills The Beans

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Sergent Kipyegon Kenei, an officer who was on duty at Deputy President William Ruto’s office at the time ex-Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa held an illegal meeting at the Harambee Annex office, was murdered in cold blood, DCI George Kinoti has revealed.

According to CCTV footages played before media cameras on Thursday afternoon at DCI headquarters, Sergent Kenei was murdered, with his killers stage managing the incident to make it look like suicide.

Reports have described Kenei as a key witness in the ongoing Sh39 billion fake arms deal investigation involving Echesa and three others.

Sergent Kenei was found dead on February 20 at his house in Villa Franca Estate in Imara Daima.

A post-mortem carried out on his body on February 26 revealed that he died from a single gunshot wound.

Kenei was killed by a bullet that was fired from a pistol held to his chin.

DCI Kinoti has revealed that the impact of the single gunshot to his head could have sent him falling on the bed, instead, he was found on the floor.

Further CCTV footage shows Ex-Sports CS Rashid Echesa and other suspects were in DP Ruto’s Harambee Annex office for 1hr 22mins and not 23 mins, DCI boss Kinoti says.

Additionally, evidence has shown that the suicide note collected from his house on the day he was murdered did not bear his handwriting.

“Everything was well planned to appear like a suicide. Sending money to his family, leaving behind a suicide note and so forth but it’s a clear case of murder,” a detective privy to the ongoing investigations told the Nation.

The preliminary probe shows Kenei’s murder was planned for a long time.

Kinoti further noted that the policeman wanted to record a statement on the fake arms deal.

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DCI Kinoti hires flamboyant city lawyer to represent him in case against Wairimu

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

The DCI chief, George Kinoti, has hired city lawyer Donald Kipkorir to represent him in a civil case in which a contempt action against him was filed by Sarah Wairimu-Cohen.

In a letter addressed to Wairimu’s lawyer, Philip Murgor and State prosecutor, Catherine Mwaniki, Kinoti says he “read on social media that Wairimu had sued him for contempt of court”.

Kinoti said he was out of Kenya, and that he has been meant to understand that the State is yet to receive the application of contempt against him.

In the letter to Wairimu’s lawyer, Kinoti is asking Murgor to serve his legal rep, Kipkorir, with the application.

Kinoti has termed the letter as urgent.

On Tuesday, October 15, Tob Cohen’s widow, Sarah Wairimu, filed to have Kinoti, Nation’s special projects boss and senior journalist, John Kamau, and State prosecutor Juma Victor Owiti jailed for six months for contempt of court.

Wairimu’s list also included Office of the DPP (3rd respondent) and that of the DCI (1st respondent). The applicant wants the two offices fined for contempt.

Wairimu said the five respondents disobeyed an edict issued by Lady Justice Jessie Lesiit on September 16, which barred the DCI, DPP and the media from publishing content involving investigations into Tob Cohen’s death.

Wairimu accused DCI chief Kinoti (2nd accused) of “prosecuting” the case against her on September 13 after discovering Cohen’s body in his Kitisuru home.

“…[ On September 13], the 1st and 2nd respondents, knowing well that there was no iota of evidence directly or indirectly linking the applicant to the murder of her husband, continued to prosecute their trumped up case against the applicant through the print and electronic media by going into a frenzy of: malicious and unsubstantiated allegations; unsolicited commentaries; uniformed opinions; and unverified theories, all calculated to depict the applicant as a cold-hearted originator, facilitator and executor of her husband’s initial disappearance and subsequent murder,” said Wairimu in her application filed at the High Court in Nairobi on Tuesday, October 15.

On John Kamau, whom she listed as the 5th respondent, Wairimu accused him of writing a “damning article” published on September 16, which, she said, “cast aspersions on the innocence of the applicant”.

The article, Wairimu said, was titled Inside web of lies that led police to Cohen’s body.

Wairimu also accused Kinoti of holding on to her matrimonial property with the aim of “handing it over on a silver platter to interested parties, including the siblings of the deceased as confirmed in an article published in The Star newspaper on September 16 titled Cohen gave sister Ksh400 million will”.

Juma Victor Owiti, the 4th respondent, is the State prosecutor.

The pre-trial for Tob Cohen murder case begins on October 30.

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Sarah Wairimu Now Want DCI Kinoti, Senior Journalist Jailed For 6 Months

by Mustafa Juma
written by Mustafa Juma

Tob Cohen’s widow, Sarah Wairimu, now wants DCI chief, George Kinoti, Nation’s special projects boss and senior journalist, John Kamau, and The Star reporter Juma Victor Owiti jailed for six months for contempt of court.

Wairimu’s list also includes Office of the DPP (3rd respondent) and that of the DCI (1st respondent). The applicant wants the two offices fined for contempt.

Wairimu says the five respondents disobeyed an edict issued by Lady Justice Jessie Lesiit on September 16, which barred the DCI, DPP and the media from publishing content involving investigations into Tob Cohen’s death.

Wairimu accused DCI chief Kinoti (2nd accused) of “prosecuting” the case against her on September 13 after discovering Cohen’s body in his Kitisuru home.

“…[ On September 13], the 1st and 2nd respondents, knowing well that there was no iota of evidence directly or indirectly linking the applicant to the murder of her husband, continued to prosecute their trumped up case against the applicant through the print and electronic media by going into a frenzy of: malicious and unsubstantiated allegations; unsolicited commentaries; uniformed opinions; and unverified theories, all calculated to depict the applicant as a cold-hearted originator, facilitator and executor of her husband’s initial disappearance and subsequent murder,” said Wairimu in her application filed at the High Court in Nairobi on Tuesday, October 15.

On John Kamau, whom she has listed as the 5th respondent, Wairimu accuses him of writing a “damning article” published on September 16, which, she says, “cast aspersions on the innocence of the applicant”.

The article, Wairimu says, was titled Inside web of lies that led police to Cohen’s body.

Wairimu also accuses Kinoti of holding on to her matrimonial property with the aim of “handing it over on a silver platter to interested parties, including the siblings of the deceased as confirmed in an article published in The Star newspaper on September 16 titled Cohen gave sister Ksh400 million will”.

The story had the name of Juma Victor Owiti, the 4th respondent, as the author.

Meanwhile, the pre-trial for Tob Cohen murder case begins on October 30.

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