Waris Daud (left) and her niece, Amina Abdirashid Dhahir and Willis Ayieko were all murdered under strange circumstances.
Following weeks of speculation, police concluded that the murder of former Wells Fargo human resource manager Willis Ayieko was the result of a violent robbery.
Seven suspects have been arrested and arraigned, as the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) seeks to complete its probe.
The nature of injuries on Mr Ayieko’s body suggested that the human resource expert may have been tortured before being killed and dumped in a stream in Siaya County.
His body was found on October 23, 2024.
The late Willis Ayieko was the Head of Human Resource (HR) at Wells Fargo.
Friends and former colleagues said that Mr Ayieko was investigating a November 2023 robbery of Sh94 million which was being transported by Wells Fargo security personnel to a bank. Wells Fargo has since refunded Quickmart the entire amount.
The main suspect in Mr Ayieko’s death, Robert Wakolo Okoth alias George Oduor Okoth and Kim, was shot dead by police on October 20. A woman who was in Mr Okoth’s company was also shot. She died while receiving treatment in a Siaya hospital.
Escaped a dragnet
Mr Okoth had been investigated and trailed by police for days. On the day of his death, Mr Okoth escaped a dragnet after defying orders to stop a new car he was driving, prompting police officers to shoot.
Police now say that Mr Victor Ouma Okoth, a suspect who was linked to the murder and is currently in police custody, was one of the suspects who were captured parking Mr Ayieko’s car at a petrol station in Vihiga County.
Mr Okoth was arrested in Dandora Phase Four, where he rented a single room after fleeing Siaya after Mr Ayieko’s murder.
Other deaths that have shaken the country include that of three women, whose bodies were dumped in different parts of Nairobi and Machakos counties.
Waris Daud, her 12-year-old daughter Nuseiba Dahir, and 23-year-old niece Amina Abdirashad were allegedly murdered by Mr Hashim Dagane Muhumed, an Ethiopian national who police say was in the country illegally.
The late Waris Daud (left) and her niece, Amina Abdirashid Dhahir.
Mr Muhumed was arrested while in his Eastleigh hideout in Kamkunji Sub-County.
He was also linked to the death of a woman identified as Deka Abdinoor. She was killed in Lavington, and her body was dumped in the Lang’ata Cemetery.
On the day Ms Daud and her kin were murdered, a kidnapped woman escaped death narrowly after her family paid a Sh1 million ransom. The money was sent to a bank account in Ethiopia.
The woman, whose identity has been hidden for security reasons, is a witness in the murder of Ms Daud and her two relatives.
After being released, the family of the kidnapped woman told police that she was in love with Mr Muhumed.
Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital medical intern Vincent Bosire Nyambunde (left) and Angel Moraa. Their bodies were found at an apartment in Nyamataro, Kisii County.
Last month, Vincent Nyambunde and his lover Angel Moraa Ongeri were found dead inside a house in the Nyamataro area, Kisii County.
Mr Nyambunde is suspected to have killed Ms Ongeri. Ms Ongeri had travelled from the US. Police believe that Mr Nyambunde killed himself after murdering Ms Ongeri.
The apartment the bodies were found in was locked from inside.
The bodies were discovered on November 29. Ms Ongeri’s body was partly decomposed, an indication that she had died several days before neighbours broke into the apartment when investigating a foul smell.
Mr Nyambunde’s body had not started decomposing.
James Nyaata Onchiri, a 62-year-old advocate based in Kajiado County died mysteriously, and his body was found in the Kajiado Law Courts compound.
Five people who were last seen with him have been arraigned in connection with the advocate’s death.
Seth Nyakio Njeri’s body was discovered in her friend’s house on October 14 at Blessing Building in Biafra, Thika Town.
Murdered student Seth Nyakio.
Police said that the 23-year-old student died of asphyxia due to manual strangulation and smothering.
A recent report by the National Council on the Administration of Justice (NCAJ) showed that there was an increase in the number of serious crimes reported to the police this year.
The number of crimes reported to the police in the year to June 30, 2024, was 104,769, an increase on the 97,301 reported in the 2022/2023 financial year.
“All crime types have been rising gradually over time,” The NCAJ says in its report.
According to Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja, 339 cases had been reported in October 2024, an increase of three in a similar period in 2023.
“The attention of the National Police Service is drawn to the disturbing patterns of murder cases reported to the Police in the past two months,” Kanja said.
He said investigations into other murder cases reported in recent days are ongoing.
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