24/10/2024
UPDATE ON INVESTIGATIONS OF MURDER CASES IN THE COUNTRY FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS
6. Victoria Mumbua a taxi driver in Mombasa was driving motor vehicle Reg. No. KDQ 182 F Nissan Serena from Mombasa before she was reported missing on September 28, 2024 at Makupa Police Station with her last call having been made at Samburu Town, Kwale County. Police in Nakuru vide Mwariki PoliceStation on September 29, 2024 arrested a suspect Edwin Ngetich Kipkemboi in possession of the victim’s vehicle and he confessed to have murdered and dumped her body along Mai Mahiu-Naivasha Highway. Her body which was recovered on September 28, 2024 by Officers from Lari Police Station and brought to City Mortuary for preservation has since been positively identified by her family.
Forensic analysis by the DCI Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau Officers on two mobile phones recovered from the suspect has also linked him with another murder of George Njuguna, a taxi driver in Migori County who was
to reported missing on on 31/7/24 at Kehancha Police Station, while driving a motor vehicle reg number KDD 468C make Noah before his body was recovered in a thicket by herders along old Nairobi Nakuru road near St Marys Hospital with deep cut on the neck. The body was later identified on 28/8/24 by relatives at Gilgil Mortuary. The Homicide Detectives have managed to recover the said motor vehicle in Nakuru fitted with new registration number KDC 985D.
The suspect has also been linked to two other cases of robbery with violence in which two taxi drivers were lured before they were robbed off their motor vehicles. Detectives have managed to recover the two motor vehicles fittedwith fake number plates.