Two more suspects, including a suspended police officer, have been arrested in the abduction and murder of cab driver Evans Mochara.
Stanley Collins Muthika and Kennedy Murimi Kinyua are considered accomplices of the primary suspect, the deceased's wife.
According to sources close to the investigation, Muthike and Murimi were apprehended on Friday by Nairobi Region Crime Research detectives acting on "actionable intelligence information on the perpetrators."
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Muthike was apprehended initially in Nyeri's Ruringu village and, after questioning, led detectives to the Olekasasi ward within Ongata Rongai township, where Murimi was arrested.
TWO BEHIND BARS OVER TAXI DRIVER'S ABDUCTION, MURDER
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Two suspects connected to the abduction and subsequent murder of taxi driver Evans Bikundo Moracha, whose body was recovered at River Sagana on October 14, 2023, have been arrested by Nairobi Region Crime Research detectives… pic.twitter.com/GlrwCHCjq8
Murimi is a police constable driver stationed at Akila Police Station in Lang'ata, according to authorities. However, he is currently under interdiction for desertion of duty.
According to the DCI, preliminary evidence indicates that Mochara was picked up from his house by the two guys on the night of October 11 in the presence of his wife.
Evans Mochara's body was discovered and thrown in Maragua Dam in Murang'a County on October 14, two days after he went missing from his house in Nairobi's Mihang'o district.
Teresia, the major suspect in her husband's abduction and murder, was apprehended a week later after making a suspicious missing person report.
On Monday, she appeared at the Makadara Law Courts, where the police sought a miscellaneous application to keep her for an extra seven days.
However, the scenario changed dramatically last Saturday when an unidentified body discovered in Maragua Dam, Murang'a, was positively identified as that of 47-year-old Evans Moracha.
Masese was the last person to speak to her spouse at 21:06 hours on Wednesday last week, just four hours before he was picked up from his house at 1 a.m. on Thursday, according to call data analysis.
She filed a missing person complaint at Kayole Police Station on Saturday, two days after Evans went missing. It happened to be the same day Evans Moracha's rotting body was discovered.
During the interrogation, she denied speaking to or seeing her husband that day, and she had previously refused to cooperate when summoned by the police.
