The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Sunday arrested three more suspects connected to the murder of Nakuru activist Richard Otieno alias Molo President.
In a statement on Monday, February 24, DCI revealed that Tanzanian authorities assisted its officers in making two of the three arrests.
The arrests followed a forensic analysis of the crime scene conducted by the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) which linked the three to the crime.
Once they were identified, detectives drawn from the Homicide Investigations Bureau set out to round up all the suspects but only three were captured with several others still at large.
According to the DCI report, two suspects fled to Majahida in the Bariadi District of Tanzania after committing the crime to avoid detection. However, the Tanzanian authorities captured them and returned them to the country on February 21.
When they were brought back into the country, they were re-arrested alongside another accomplice still in Kenya.
So far, police investigations have revealed that the perpetrators were transported from Molo to Elburgon to carry out the heinous act on January 18.
As efforts to round up the other suspects ramp up, the three are expected to appear before the Nakuru Chief Magistrate's Court on Monday, February 24, for custodial orders.
This is the second wave of arrests that has been made in connection to the gruesome murder which led Elburgon residents to storm the mortuary where his body was being held and marched with it to the streets to demonstrate.
On Monday, February 3, the first five arrests were made in connection to the murder after a multi-agency team linked them, also through forensic analysis.
According to the DCI, three of the five suspects were the actual perpetrators of the crime while two of them were bodaboda riders who ferried them to and from the crime scene.
It was also determined that two of the suspects arrested had previously been arrested for assaulting him in late 2024 and sentenced to a year on probation.
