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Suspects in Mbai killing demand a fresh probe
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Two men who were last year cleared of charges of killing university lecturer Crispin Mbai now want the murder case investigated afresh.
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Mr Musa Gitogo Mbuthi and Mr Ramadhan Karume Otieno, who had been charged with the September 2003 murder, said the trial had traumatised their families more so because the matter remained unresolved.
They accused police of conducting shoddy investigations and implicating them when the real culprits went free.
"This was a high-profile case that should have been investigated properly. Unless the true killers have died, they are still out there enjoying themselves waiting to commit similar acts on other people," Mr Karume told the Sunday Nation yesterday.
He added: "It was like a conspiracy to cover up something by dragging us to court, otherwise the investigators should not have tortured us the way they did if they were really on the right track."
The two had been charged together with Collins Kilel alias Supa.
The University of Nairobi lecturer was shot several times by three men who stormed his residence at Adam's Arcade, Nairobi, in September 2003 as he rested in the living room.
At the time he was also the chairman of the devolution committee at the National Delegates Conference of the constitution review process at Bomas of Kenya.
The murder provoked a public outcry with claims that it was an assassination.
Mr Musa Gitogo Mbuthi (right) and Mr Ramadhan Karume Otieno, who were last year acquitted of murdering Constitution of Kenya Review Commission delegate Crispin Mbai, at Nation Centre yesterday. They want fresh investigations. Photo/Paul Waweru
The two men, who were represented by lawyers Francis Njanja and Bernard Muriuki, were acquitted on April 28 last year after spending 19 months at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.
