Written By Mary Mumbua 📝
A man accused of killing Samuel Mugoh Muvota in Mirema, Nairobi surrendered to police Monday in a dramatic turn of events.
Dennis Karani Gachoki claimed he is innocent and only met Muvota twice- once in Meru and in Nairobi.
He surrendered to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters accompanied by a lawyer.
He also confirmed he has an ongoing court case in Meru where he was accused of receiving money acquired through fraudulent means.
He said he felt his life was in danger hence to move to surrender.
“I am innocent and I will prove this. I didn’t kill the man they say I killed,” he said.
The detectives took him for further grilling.
Detectives said Friday Gachoki is armed and dangerous and is suspected to be in possession of a firearm that was snatched from a stupefied police officer, after a round of drinks at a popular joint in Mombasa, in November, 2020.
Efforts by detectives to arrest him have been futile since the suspect who is well loaded, influences rogue cops who tip him off once an operation for his arrest has been launched, Directorate of Criminal Investigations said.
According to the DCI, in one occasion, Gachoki’s accomplice was texted minutes before his arrest, throwing a spanner in the works of a meticulous operation that had taken months to put together.
On Friday, Police said Gachoki recently fell out with his boss Muvota over sharing of proceeds from their “pishori trade” and beautiful women who would first pay with their flesh before being enlisted to the mafia-style organization.
This among other beefs are suspected to have led to a bitter fallout leading to Monday’s daylight murder of Muvota, who has left behind seven grieving widows and countless children.
Forensic Cyber detectives picked Gachoki’s last signal deep inside burnt forest, hours after the murder.
“We believe that the suspect has already crossed the border to a neighbouring country.”
A picture of the said suspect was circulated asking for public help to arrest him.
Muvota 40, was fatally shot by a lone gunman on Mirema Drive in Kasarani, Nairobi County on May 16 shortly after dropping off a friend.
The owners of three of the seven documents found in the man’s Honda CR-V said in their police reports that they were victims of drugging.
According to police, one of them is a university lecturer, another is a Thika-based businessman while the third is a resident of Roysambu.
All of them were stupefied at nightclubs within Kasarani and Kahawa West areas on different dates between May 14 and May 16.
Thursday, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations said Muvota’s files stink to high heaven.
The findings have revealed skeletons in the man’s dark life dating as far back as 2011, when Muvota started stealing from victims at ATMs in various banks and graduated to a full-time thug who hired beautiful, expensive-looking women and deployed them as drinks spiking agents at various high end entertainment spots.
According to police, Muvota who headed an ATM and SIM swapping syndicate that operated like a mafia criminal organization.
He apparently was a multi-millionaire with several real estate properties scattered across the city, a fleet of vehicles and seven wives all living lavishly from proceeds of stupefied patrons in clubs most frequented by revelers.
Interestingly, none of the wives suspected that Muvota lived a double life.
So lucrative was Muvota’s trade that he had recruited over 50 voluptuous damsels into his ‘Pishori’ administering trade, that has led to broken marriages, left many men admitted in hospitals and others dead from an overdose of a stupefying drug only identified as ‘Tamuu’ supposed to be administered to patients suffering from mental disorders.
After 11 years in the highly dangerous trade that has in recent days targeted patrons looking for entertainment in high-end establishments including top public servants, businessmen, politicians and men of the cloth, Muvota seemed to have made more enemies than friends.
