Fresh investigations undertaken by police on the attempted murder of former Garissa Finance executive Idriss Mukhtar revealed how the hit men tried to cover their tracks.
Reports indicated that detectives recovered a Toyota Allion believed to have been used by hired assassins.
The vehicle was traced by officers to a garage in Ngara where it was being repainted red from its original grey colour.
According to reports, the registration number was also changed from the initial KBQ to KCR, an indication of a major coverup.
Mechanics who were working on the vehicle told investigators the car was brought last Sunday by a man of Somali decent.
Police had yet to trace him by last evening. He had told the mechanics to spruce up the car with a new coat of paint, they told the detectives.
Initially, the man wanted the car painted grey but on Tuesday morning, he called the owner of the garage and asked to have it painted red.
It was still being worked on when the police stormed the garage on Tuesday afternoon.
According to reports by the Star, police sources claimed that the attempted murder of the former Garissa Finance executive was planned by Garissa Governor Ali Korane’s cousin who is in police custody.
Mukhtar was shot in the head while at a shopping mall in Kileleshwa nine days ago before police arrested six suspects in where Korane’s cousin was alleged to have hatched Mukhtar’s murder plot.
