5 Suspects Confess Why They Killed Kabete MP, George Muchai

The five suspects behind the murder of Kabete MP,George Muchai, his two bodyguards and the driver have confessed why they killed the four in cold blood two weeks ago.

Muchai was murdered on a Saturday morning as he drove home from Westlands where he had held a family meeting that night.

The five suspects told the police that they were on a night long robbery mission when they spotted Muchai’s car parked near Nyayo House.

They were in a carjacked Toyota Spacio when they spotted the late MP’s car and turned around to carjack and rob it.

On reaching there, they dashed out of their car and headed straight to the car. One of the suspects saw Muchai’s bodyguard draw a pistol ready to shoot, and that is when the killer opened fire at the four, killing them instantly.

The five suspects, two women and three men, were arraigned in court yesterday where the court allowed the police to detain them for 22 days as they carry out investigations into their other criminal activities.

They were presented before principal magistrate Benson Nzakyo.

The suspects were identified as Steven Astiva Lipopo, alias Chokore, Raphael Kimani Gachie, alias Kim Butcher, Mustafa Kimani Anyonyi, alias Musto, Eric Isabwa Munyeria, alias Chairman, Margaret Njeri Wachiuri and Jane Wanjiru Kamau, alias Shiro.

The police said Munyeria was armed with a G3 rifle and did all the killing. The 28-year-old works as a tomato distributor at the Kangemi Open-air Market and is a father of one.

Mustafa Kimani, 23, works as a hawker in the Kangemi area. He is not married but has a girlfriend identified only as Njeri, who was not arrested by the police. He lives in a one-roomed house in Kangemi near the Adamanje Academy. The man also does menial jobs in his neighborhood, such a carrying luggage and washing cars.

Thirty-five-year-old Raphael Kimani is the Kangemi butcher found with a Ceska pistol stolen from one of Muchai’s guards. He hails from the Rironi area but lives in a rented house in Waruku. He is said to be the driver of the Toyota Spacio carjacked from the two women in the Wangige area and which was used during the attack on Muchai.

Lipopo, a 35-year-old, had the role on the night of terror of beating up victims and robbing them. He was arrested at a house in the Murera area of Ruiru, where he fled to after the MP’s murder. He also operates from the Kangemi matatu terminus, where he sometimes works as a tout and also does menial jobs at the Kangemi market.

Jane Wanjiru Kamau, 25, is a mother of one and is married to Mustafa Kimani Anyonyi (Musto). Margaret Njeri Wachiuri is a 30-year-old mother of two and wife of Eric Isabwa Munyeria. She runs a vegetable kiosk near her house in Kangemi. Police found the G3 rifle used in the murder and seven bullets in her house.

Credits: The Star