Police officers in the Ruiru area of Kiambu have a suspect in custody concerning the murder of a 35-year-old woman last month.

Police are holding a suspect in Kiambu County's Ruiru area in connection with the murder of a 35-year-old woman last month.

On Tuesday, March 7, Christopher Kiptum Keter, 50, was found hiding in Mukuru kwa Njenga slums in Embakasi. Kiptum had been on the run since February 8, 2023, after learning that he was a person of interest in the murder of Christine Makena Maingi.

PHOTO | COURTESY police car

Police reports indicate that the deceased was last seen in the company of pastor kiptum. Detectives obtained CCTV footage and mobile phone communications that disclosed that kiptum and the dead were together on February 5th and 6th before Makena's decomposing body was discovered two days later dumped in a residential building in the Gathogora area of Ruiru Sub-County.

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Police officers at the crime scene suspected that the deceased had committed suicide by an apparent drug overdose. An autopsy was conducted later, and, discovered that Christine Makena Maingi had died from strangulation.

According to police reports, the suspect and the deceased regularly met at the dead's home, where she lived with her family members. Her family had travelled upcountry at the time of the incident.

Makena is said to have introduced the suspect as a pastor, and they would meet for prayer sessions on several occasions. They first met while travelling from Mombasa to Nairobi earlier this year.

Christine Makena Maingiwas laid to rest in meru on February 18 while kiptum is at the police station awaiting his case to be heard as investigators continue their investigations.

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