The late Waris Daud (left) and her niece, Amina Abdirashid Dhahir.
The hearing of a case linking a Somali national to the gruesome murders of four women in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area began on Wednesday (December 3, 2025) with a police officer displaying video clips of the alleged abductions before the brutal killings.
A scene of crimes officer attached to the directorate of criminal investigations (DCI), Corporal Lawrence Kamau, played videos extracted from CCTV cameras from various scenes showing a vehicle picking up the victims who were later killed.
From the videos displayed on a large screen, the accused Hashim Dagane, alias Hashim Khalif, is seen picking up the victims and driving them away.
Testifying before a Milimani High Court Judge, the police officer said he retrieved the CCTV footage from Eastleigh, Parklands, Lavington and from a Petrol Station along Mombasa Road.
“I retrieved all these videos from CCTV cameras from the various picking points at Eastleigh, Total Energies in Athi River, Parklands and Lavington,” the police officer testified.
The officer testified and provided a detailed account of how he reconstructed the crime scenes.
He added that while in the company of others, they visited all the scenes where they dusted for fingerprints and recovered the CCTV footage.
The abductees were identified by their dresses.
The CCTV footage also indicated the time of the abductions, with some occurring at 4am in the wee hours of October 22, 2024.
Relatives of the deceased women who thronged the court spoke in law tones as they watched their former beloved relatives boarding the taxi.
Dagane has denied that he murdered Ms Dahabo Daud Said Alias Waris, Ms Amina Dhahir, Ms Musayba Abdi Mohamed and Ms Deka Abdi Noor Gorane.
He allegedly committed the gruesome murders between October 21 and October 30, 2024.
The charges filed by the director of public prosecutions state that Ms Dahabo was murdered on the night of October 21 and 22 October at Kyumbi area, Machakos County.
The charges further claim that Ms Amina and Ms Abdi were killed on the same night around the Parklands area, Nairobi.
The prosecution further alleges that Ms Deka was murdered between October 28 and 30, at Valley Heights Apartments in Lavington, Nairobi County.
Dagane is currently being held at Nairobi Area Remand and Allocation prison.
When Dagane charged on January 21, 2025, amid increased incidents of femicide across the country.
The women who were brutally murdered and their bodies dumped separately, after being reported as missing.
Initial police reports indicated that the killers had demanded ransom and but eliminated the victims after failing to get the money.
Human rights organizations had called upon the security agencies to stamp out the vice.
