Three suspects who were arrested over the killing of lawyer Kyalo Mbobu have been released due to lack of evidence.
Maulid Bare, the lawyer who is representing the three, said that they were released on Saturday, September 13.
According to reports, the three individuals were among the last individuals the lawyer met hours before he was assassinated along Magadi Road last week.
Bare claimed that investigators involved in the case were unable to attain forensic evidence, including from their mobile phones, that would have linked the three to the assassination of the lawyer.
"The arrest and detention of the three was malicious, unjustified, and reckless abuse of police powers," Bare stated.
"We wish to make it clear that the forensic phone analysis, the ballistic examination of the firearm, and the independently verified alibis have all conclusively exonerated the three from any connection whatsoever to the murder," he added.
The lawyer was shot dead in a drive-by attack in the Galleria Brookside area along Magadi Road in Nairobi while he was driving home on Tuesday, September 9.
Mbobu, a senior lawyer with three decades of practice, was gunned down shortly after 7:30 p.m. by an assailant on a motorcycle who sped off after the attack.
In a press briefing on Thursday, September 11, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen confirmed that officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are in the process of identifying more suspects linked to the incident.
According to the CS, several witnesses had already come out to provide information, and the detectives were in the process of piecing together the details.
"We have been in touch with the DCI since this thing happened, and I am happy to note that there is some progress. Some persons of interest have been identified," Murkomen revealed.
"Those persons of interest are being interrogated, and so many others are going to be sought. We thank the eyewitnesses who have already come out who were at the scene and many others who are giving information to the DCI," he added.
