Two more suspects, including an interdicted police officer, have been arrested in the murder of cab driver Evans Mochara, who was abducted and slain earlier this month.
The two, Stanley Collins Muthike Thyka and Kennedy Murimi Kinyua, are thought to be accomplices of the primary suspect, the deceased’s wife.
According to sources close to the investigation, Muthike and Murimi were apprehended on Friday by detectives from the Nairobi region.
Muthike was detained first and took the detectives to Olekasasi ward within Ongata Rongai municipality, where Murimi was arrested.
Murimi is a police constable driver stationed at Akila Police Station in Lang’ata, according to authorities, however, he is currently under interdiction for desertion of duty.
The two are being held at the Capitol Hill and Kilimani Police Stations.
Evans Mochara’s body was discovered in Maragua Dam in Murang’a County on October 14, two days after he went missing from his house in Nairobi’s Mihang’o district.
Teresia, the major suspect in her husband’s abduction and murder, was apprehended a week later after making a suspicious missing person report.
On Monday, she appeared at the Makadara Law Courts, where the police sought a miscellaneous application to keep her for an extra seven days.
However, the scenario changed dramatically last Saturday when an unidentified body discovered in Maragua Dam, Murang’a, was positively identified as that of 47-year-old Evans Moracha.
The police amended their plea, requesting 21 days to complete their investigations.
Masese was the last person to speak to her spouse at 21:06 hours on Wednesday last week, just four hours before he was picked up from his house at 1 a.m. on Thursday, according to call data analysis.
She filed a missing person complaint at Kayole Police Station on Saturday, two days after Evans went missing. It happened to be the same day Evans Moracha’s rotting body was discovered.
During the interrogation, she denied speaking to or seeing her husband that day, and she had previously refused to cooperate when summoned by the police.
On Thursday, Moracha’s car departed the Chokaa area at 1:44 a.m., connecting Kangundo Road, passing via Sagana at 03:49 a.m., and then Kirinyaga 54 minutes later.
The vehicle was spotted in Kasarani, Nairobi, at 06:50 a.m., and subsequently at the Astrol Petrol Station in Runda, before going on to Gitaru and then Ongata Rongai at 10:02 a.m.
It was later seen at South C at 11:09 a.m. and Airport South Road in Pipeline at 3:01 p.m. before being abandoned in Njiru.
