Two Nigerians held over Rita Waeni homicide

Two Nigerian nationals suspected to have killed and dismembered the physique of 20-year-old girl in an residence on TRM Drive, Kasarani, earlier than disappearing together with her head had been residing in Kenya illegally, based on investigations by the Directorate of Prison Investigations (DCI).

The 2 are William Ovie Opia, whose passport is expired, and Johnbull Asbor, who DCI says didn’t have any journey paperwork on the time of his arrest.

Asbor instructed detectives that he misplaced his passport two years in the past.

The suspects had been traced by the DCI’s Prison Analysis and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) detectives to an residence in Ndenderu in Kiambu County the place they had been picked up on Sunday.

Constable Benjamin Wangila of Kasarani DCI workplaces instructed a Makadara courtroom on Monday that the suspects had been residing not very removed from the realm the place Rita Waeni’s head was recovered.

A hatchet, butcher’s knife, a nationwide id card belonging to a Kenyan (identify withheld), six cell phones, three laptops, 10 SIM playing cards from completely different telecom companies suppliers and different objects had been recovered on the home the place the 2 suspects had been residing.

“The investigation crew is looking for to acquire name knowledge information for all of the SIM playing cards and cell phone numbers recovered from the respondents to establish whether or not they had been concerned within the homicide,” Wangila acknowledged in an affidavit filed within the courtroom.

“The applicant requires enough time to escort the respondents to the Authorities Chemist for extraction of their blood samples for DNA evaluation and comparability towards the samples that had been extracted from the scene of crime.”

He stated the suspects are flight dangers since they don’t have a recognized fastened place of dwelling.

Constable Wangila was looking for orders to carry the suspects for eight days on the Kasarani police station which had been granted by Senior Principal Justice of the Peace Agnes Mwangi of Makadara Legislation Courts.

They are going to be in custody till January 31.

The affidavit indicated that Opia purchased a hatchet from an internet vendor and he instructed investigators that he had purchased it for self-defense.

 Mr Wangila stated he was investigating a case of homicide opposite to Part 203 learn with Part 204 of the Penal Code, which was reported at Kasarani Police Station vide OB34/14/01/2024 by Priscila Maina, the proprietor of the short-term rental residence the place Ms Waeni was killed.

Ms Maina who’s in custody instructed the police that she had acquired info from the caretaker of the residence that there have been blood traces from her BnB which led her to a rubbish assortment level on the bottom flooring the place physique components had been discovered stashed in refuse baggage.

Ms Maina is in custody for failure to register her tenant’s essential particulars as required by the legislation, which might have helped the DCI to hint the assassin.

Waeni’s household was unable to establish her head on Monday on the Metropolis Mortuary though the DCI had stated her head had been recovered at a dam in Kiambu on Sunday, January 21.

Information on the Metropolis Mortuary the place the pinnacle had been taken indicated that it belonged to an unknown feminine grownup.

A lacking cell phone that belonged to the deceased was additionally recovered on the scene.

The pinnacle was discovered coated in a sack and wrapped in a purple shirt, including a sinister twist to the already ugly scene.

A postmortem performed on the physique on Friday final week confirmed she had lacking fingernails.