Hiding In Plain Sight After The Murder

Ruth Kamande

Ruth stunned many with her beauty infact, she was crowned Miss Lang’ata 2016 beauty pageant. However, behind the deceiving looks rests a devil as the court would later confirm.

Kamande who had been in custody since 2015 before her sentencing in 2018 having been was found guilty of killing Mohammed who was then 24-years-old in May.

According to submissions made in court, she stabbed her boyfriend Farid Mohammed severally following a domestic dispute sparked by a revelation that he had been taking HIV suppressing drugs without her knowledge.

Kamande said Mohammed had threatened her when she confronted him.

While sentencing her to death Justice Lesiit said the accused had shown manipulative behaviour as she had on many occasions secretly accessed Mohammed’s phone.

She also said Kamande showed no remorse for her actions in the course of the trial despite having stabbed her boyfriend repeatedly for up to twenty-five times.

“Even though the police say they had inadvertently lost the pictures of the scene, the evidence of those who went there created a vivid picture of how it looked after the incident – they said that there was blood all over,” the judge observed in her ruling.

“I want young people to know that it is not cool to kill your boyfriend or girlfriend even where you feel disappointed or frustrated – don’t do it. Instead, it is cool to walk away and thereafter to forgive,” Justice Lesiit outlined.

She’s waiting to be hanged.

Chris Obure & Robert Ouko

Robert Ouko Bodo (right) and Chris Obure at a Kibra court on August 24, 2020.

Last head Chris Obure a well known gold scammer in town found himself on the receiving. Robert Ouko Bodo who’s his bodyguard was accused of fatally shooting Omwenga inside the deceased’s bedroom on the seventh floor of the Galana Suites, located on Galana Road in Kilimani, Nairobi. He was caught on CCTV picking the gun from Chris office and returning it after the killing.

Early 2017, the same Mini Ceska that was used in killing Omwenga was confiscated after Obure was found to have misused it by threatening another businessman, Ben Alila.

Obure had also in 2016 been accused of threatening another man with his firearm while at the Klub House on Ojijo Road in Parklands. He was deemed unfit for handling guns.

The deceased had planned to travel to Dubai to cement the fake gold deal that was launched in March and was to fetch Sh120 million. Omwenga and Obure were also close associates as evidence would later reveal.

This, the detectives believe, was the cause of the bitter disagreement. Detectives believe Obure had a hand in the death of the man who was shit at a close range. The case is ongoing. Obure has since maintained a low profile unusual of him by keeping away from social gatherings. The last we heard he’s now concentrating on running his private jet company Glo-JET International Holdings Corp.

Assa Nyakundi

Lawyer Assa and murdered son Joseph Bogonko.

Being a criminal lawyer and well versed with the murder cases, Assa has had his way, attempted to circumvent the system since shooting his son last year in March.

Nyakundi who is out on bail claims he accidentally shot and killed his son. He was charged with murder.

Last year, Haji applied to terminate manslaughter charges against Nyakundi with a view of preferring murder charges based on new evidence.

“The new evidence would warrant murder charges against Nyakundi at the High Court,” DPP said.

Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti disowned the charges and ordered an inquiry into the matter to ascertain the possibility of a coverup. He claimed not to have been fully briefed on the progress of the probe.

Already, two detectives we’re interdicted over claims that they bungled investigation into the death of the lawyer’s son.

Nyakundi shot and killed his son in March last year as they headed to their home in Nairobi’s Muthaiga North estate from ICC Church on Mombasa Road.

The attorney told police that when he approached his house, he reached for his pistol to safeguard it but accidentally pulled the trigger, shooting his son, who was in the back seat of the car.

But an autopsy report indicated that the deceased was shot from outside the car and succumbed to excessive bleeding.

“The shot projection from the chest exiting at the back suggested that whoever shot him was standing outside the rear right back door of motor vehicle KCE 753B Toyota Axio which belongs to the father of deceased,” the report reads in part

Nyakundi was arrested and later released on Sh300,000 cash bail after denying manslaughter charges. High court has approved DPP to go ahead and charge him with murder. Currently, he’s ongoing with his litigation duties, he’s representing former Nairobi Governor Sonko in his assault and terrorism cases.