A bodaboda rider who ferried the two hitmen who killed DCI officer David Mayaka claimed he cooperated with them at gunpoint.
The bodaboda rider says that he had to cooperate because the gunmen had killed another motorcyclist who had refused their request two months before the DCI’s murder.
Alex Njenga was charged with robbery with violence in Makadara Law Courts, and he disputed the charges.
Njenga is claimed to have dropped his associates off at the location in Mihang’o, Njiru sub county, where Mayaka was killed and his wife, Hellen Kemunto shot and wounded in the leg before being robbed of her phone.
He was of robbing Kemunto of her phone valued at Sh32,000 and fatally injuring her husband during the robbery, jointly with others not in court while armed with a CZ pistol serial number B626735.
The gun used in the robbery was retrieved from Njenga’s accomplice, John Kamau alias Faruk, at his hideout in Kayole, Nairobi, on August 22.
Njenga was riding the motorcycle seen on CCTV, making a U-turn to drop two of his accomplices a few meters from where Mayaka had parked his car to replace a tyre, and then speeding away with them after they shot him and robbed his wife of her mobile phone.
He fled to his grandmother’s home in Ndeiya, Kiambu County, after the crime, and was apprehended on August 15.
Further, Njenga told the DCI officers that he was called by one of the two men at around 8pm who told him to pick him in Kayole and they proceeded to a small bar in the area where they picked the other suspect.
He told the detectives that the two robbed a woman of her mobile phone and shot on the ground to scare her along the way before they found Mayaka and his wife.
The suspect revealed that after shooting the two and robbing Kemunto, he rode the two robbers to a petrol station in Umoja where one of the suspects called a man who bought the two mobile phones then they proceeded to Soweto area where he dropped them and he was paid Sh3000 for the ride.
