A probe into the murder of American detective Esmond Bradley Martin has narrowed down to three senior officials at the National Lands Commission (NLC).
The late Martin was murdered at his Karen home, Nairobi on February 4, 2018. Police found a stab wound to his neck that probably caused his death.
Detectives suspect that the three officials murdered the ivory trade investigator over a parcel of land he owned.
Mr Martin was the third owner of a 20-acre parcel of land that had initially been owned by Scouts founder Lord Baden Powell.
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According to detectives, the NLC officials attempted to have Mr Martin transfer ownership of the land before he was murdered.
"We believe these people targeted his land and his elimination was the surest way of dealing with the matter," the lead investigator reported.
One of the suspects was arrested after it was discovered that he sent a text message the deceased conservationist.
"The suspect sent the LR number to the slain man’s mobile phone. He had also got in touch with him, saying the land was his," the investigator revealed.
The arrested man is said to have been in constant communication with the suspected NLC officials.
The detectives maintain that Mr Martin, 75, was murdered by a person who knew his compound well and who was also known to the conservationists because his guard dogs were not agitated at the time of the murder.
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The police were last week accused of being involved in the murder of Cambridge Analytica analyst Dan Muresan. The British national was found murdered in a Nairobi hotel room.
The man who exposed the British firm for involvement in Kenyan politics claimed that the police were bribed to keep the analyst in his hotel room before he was found dead.
