Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza’s husband Murega Baichu and her sister Miriam Guantai have recorded statements with police in connection to the homicide of blogger and political activist Daniel Muthiani, alias ‘Sniper’.
Detectives had summoned the 2 to the Directorate of Felony Investigations (DCI) headquarters in Meru and so they spent your entire Sunday afternoon recording statements on what they knew in regards to the homicide.
“They recorded statements and we’re occurring with the investigations. We are going to inform the general public as we progress,” he informed The Nation in a telephone interview.
Sources indicated that Mwangaza accompanied her relations to the DCI county headquarters at round 2pm after she presided over a Sunday service at her Baite Household Fellowship.
They spent the higher a part of the afternoon being interrogated by murder sleuths led by the director, Mr Martin Nyabuto, and left the places of work effectively previous 7pm.
With Mr Baichu and Guantai summoned, it means three shut relations of the Meru governor have been sucked into the investigation to unravel the mysterious homicide.
The opposite suspects are Mwangaza’s brother, Murangiri Kenneth Guantai, whom detectives need to proceed holding for 21 days pending investigations. A Kiambu regulation court docket will make ruling on the applying on January 17.
Muthiani went lacking on December 2, 2023 earlier than his physique was found in a thicket on the banks of Mutonga river on December 16, 2023.
As investigations intensify, it has additionally emerged that some individuals who seemingly wished to hide the homicide tried to mislead the household that Muthiani had been present in Kajiado County.
“It turned out that those that had been making an attempt to hide the homicide supposed to divert our consideration.”