Kandara police under pressure to unravel yoghurt trader's murder
A crime scene: Police in Kandara, Murang'a County have come under pressure to arrest and charge the criminal(s) who murdered a yoghurt supplier in the region.
What you need to know:
- Kandara Sub-county police have come under pressure to arrest and charge the criminal(s) who murdered a yoghurt supplier in the region.
- harity Njeri Kimathi had recently opened a new store for her products in Maragua town where she had been for a month and half, from Kenol town.
Kandara Sub-county police have come under pressure to arrest and charge the criminal(s) who murdered a yoghurt supplier in the region.
Area Police Commander Michael Mwaura, has told nation.africa that he is yet to gather any clue that could lead to the arrest of Charity Njeri Kimathi’s killers.
Ms Kimathi who hawked yoghurt in parts of Murang'a County was found murdered inside her supply van on November 4.
Mr Mwaura said the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) is still trying to investigate the motive and how the murder plot was executed, and by who.
This came as Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation in the region protested at the slow pace of investigations.
"It is our concern that the trend where women are murdered in this county and investigations drag on till we forget and the victims go without justice, is getting entrenched in our police department. We protest the lack of answers and any arrests so far in this death," Lucy Nyambura, the chairperson said.
Ms Kimathi's body had stab wounds on the neck and police say she was murdered elsewhere, and driven to the scene where the body was discovered along the old Makenji-Kabati road off the main Thika Superhighway to Murang'a road.
Scene of crime
She had recently opened a new store for her products in Maragua town where she had been for a month and half, from Kenol town.
Two weeks later, Mr Mwaura says investigation is still processing scene of crime specimens and constructing a sequence in her last moments in life.
“We are relying on possible eyewitnesses including you people from the media. We are in the process of summoning as many people possible related to her line of business and social life to record statements,” he said.
Born in Gikondi Village of Nyeri County to the late David Kimathi Waigera and Mary Wakarindi in a family of six siblings--three brothers and three sisters.
“We urge the police to just let us see the face(s) of her killer(s) and we shall have peace. It is important we know why anyone would plan to spill her blood,” said her sister, Leah Kimathi.
Murang'a Female Entrepreneurs Union Chairperson Jessica Muthoni said: “We are putting Kandara police on notice that women blood is not for game and we demand to be told who killed her and why.”
