15 officers have been ordered to undergo a mental evaluation by a Kiambu court before taking a plea in the brutal murder of a taxi driver and two Indian nationals.
The suspects, who come from various security services, including the now-defunct Special Services Unit (SSU) of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), will be arrested at the Kiambu Police Station.
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The officers accused are Corporal Kamau and Corporal Mbaya, along with Chief Inspector Peter Muthee Gachiku, Inspector James Kibosek Tanuki, Corporals Joseph Kamau Mbugua, David Chepchieng Kipsoi, Hillary Limo Kipchumba, Constables Stephen Luseno Matunda, Simon Muhuga Gikonyo, Paul Njogu Muriithi, Boniface Otieno Mtulla, Elikana Njeru Mugendi, Fredrick Thuku Kamau, John Wanjiku Macharia and Michael Kiplangat Bett.
The case was scheduled for a plea hearing before the High Court on June 25, 2024.According to the ODPP-approved charge sheet, each of the 15 faces three charges of murder.
It is said that on the night of July 22/23, 2022, at Ole Sereni Hotel along Mombasa Road within Nairobi County, they murdered Indians Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan and Mohammed Zaid Sami and their Kenyan driver Nicodemus Mwania Mwange.
The Indian nationals, Sami and Khan, are believed to have come to Kenya in April 2022 to join then-Deputy President William Ruto's ICT campaign team ahead of the August General Election.
A witness earlier testified in court that government vehicles were utilized to trace, catch, and dispose of the remains of the three murdered people in Aberdares National Park, Nyeri County.
During a hearing before Kahawa Law Courts in Kiambu County in March of this year, the witness stated that a vehicle attached to the SSU, registration GKB 038U, was captured in the car tracking logs entering the park's Tree Tops gate at 6:34 p.m. on July 22, 2022, which was after the official 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. visiting hours.
The court heard that the vehicle was also not recorded in the gate vehicle register book, as per the records retrieved from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) gate registers.
The court heard that the car was also not entered in the gate vehicle registration book, according to information obtained from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) gate registers.
According to the witness, 20 mobile phones belonging to the accused were taken and brought to DCI for forensic examination before being handed over to Kenya's Communications Authority for further investigation.
They were subsequently flown to India for further investigation into the events surrounding the three victims' purported abduction.
One of the phones included contact between Corporal John Mwangi Kamau and Corporal Joseph Mwenda Mbaya on October 16, in which the latter requested that the former return to the site to clean it.
