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Post by Onyango Oloo on Oct 27, 2005 1:08:29 GMT 3
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Post by miguna on Jan 15, 2006 2:21:59 GMT 3
NEWS
Suspects in Mbai killing demand a fresh probe
Story by WAHOME THUKU
Publication Date: 1/15/2006
Two men who were last year cleared of charges of killing university lecturer Crispin Mbai now want the murder case investigated afresh.
Dr Mbai
Mr Musa Gitogo Mbuthi and Mr Ramadhan Karume Otieno, who had been charged with the September 2003 murder, said the trial had traumatised their families more so because the matter remained unresolved.
They accused police of conducting shoddy investigations and implicating them when the real culprits went free.
"This was a high-profile case that should have been investigated properly. Unless the true killers have died, they are still out there enjoying themselves waiting to commit similar acts on other people," Mr Karume told the Sunday Nation yesterday.
He added: "It was like a conspiracy to cover up something by dragging us to court, otherwise the investigators should not have tortured us the way they did if they were really on the right track."
The two had been charged together with Collins Kilel alias Supa.
The University of Nairobi lecturer was shot several times by three men who stormed his residence at Adam's Arcade, Nairobi, in September 2003 as he rested in the living room.
At the time he was also the chairman of the devolution committee at the National Delegates Conference of the constitution review process at Bomas of Kenya.
The murder provoked a public outcry with claims that it was an assassination.
Mr Musa Gitogo Mbuthi (right) and Mr Ramadhan Karume Otieno, who were last year acquitted of murdering Constitution of Kenya Review Commission delegate Crispin Mbai, at Nation Centre yesterday. They want fresh investigations. Photo/Paul Waweru
The two men, who were represented by lawyers Francis Njanja and Bernard Muriuki, were acquitted on April 28 last year after spending 19 months at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.
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Post by miguna on Jan 15, 2006 2:24:31 GMT 3
It is cover-up all the way to Othaya.........................
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Police: We're probing murders
Story by CLAIRE GATHERU
Publication Date: 1/15/2006
Police yesterday reassured the public that they are still working on the unsolved murders. All homicide cases are being investigated, Police Commissioner Hussein Ali said in a statement.
Maj-Gen Ali said several high-profile murders such as that of Catholic Bishop Luigi Locati of Isiolo were in court, while the suspects in the killing of former Githurai Councillor Charles Maina Wajunguna were charged and have since been acquitted.
The murder of two sisters, Watiri and Wanjiku Muturi, a Mr Wachira in Kerugoya and that of Bernard Kahumbi, a senior police officer, are also matters pending in court.
The police were also investigating the murder of Ms Joan Roots, a British national killed in Naivasha last week, and the killing of six people in Kitalale, Trans Nzoia District, recently.
The murder of Mombasa Port police chief Hassan Abdillahi, on New Year's Eve, that of an engineer, Mr Francis Nyaega, in Kiserian, Kajiado district, and that of Mr Jowert Kagumbus in Mumias are also being investigated.
Mr Jasper Ombati who issued the statement on behalf of the commissioner said: "We wish to reassure the public that all homicide cases are investigated thoroughly. The Kenya Police note with concern reports alleging that a string of high-profile murders committed by hired hitmen still remain unsolved."
Police were reacting to a report carried in the Saturday Nation on a string of high-profile murders that remain unsolved. It was reported that many people have fallen prey to the hit squads.
The report cited the killings of University of Nairobi lecturer Chrispin Mbai, who was also a Bomas constitutional conference delegate, Kikuyu-based businessman John Kiboi ole Masikonde, Mr Michael Cheptot, and Mr Francis Kura.
Mr Masikonde was killed by gangsters outside his house in Limuru Town. The Toyota vehicle he was driving was not stolen, but the gang took away his mobile telephone and wallet on December 23.
Yesterday, Mr Ombati said: "Unfortunately, the article deliberately omitted to mention that some of the cases occurred in the 1970s and the security situation in the country today is different. Among the very old cases are the murders of politicians J. M. Kariuki, Tom Mboya, and Robert Ouko.
"Given the fact that the murder cases have no statute limitation, the police have repeatedly called for anyone with information on these or other cases to come forward and volunteer the same," he added.
But he did not give an update on other murders, including those of lawyers Samuel Ndungi and Elijah Marima Sempete.
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