The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is now looking to turn suspected killers into state witnesses in the case of a businessman's murder.
According to a report by The Standard, the two men had earlier pleaded guilty to murdering Kassim Jiraw.
The two, Ngira Karisa Charo and Makonde Ruwa Buni, however, told the court that they were acting under instructions from someone else identified as Eddlied Mandi Jilani.
The DPP wants the accused to testify against Jilani who is reported to have hired them for the hit job.
The prosecutor in their case asked Principal Magistrate Lilian Lewa to have the state strike a deal with the accused and offer them a lighter sentence.
The two convicts are being held in Nyali Police Station.
Buni and Charo, through their lawyer Daniel Wamotsa, had applied to be set free on bond.
The lawyer argued that the two had been tortured by officers while serving time at the Nyali Police Station.
“My client was threatened at gunpoint and forced to confess,” stated the lawyer.
Listening to the arguments critically, the prosecutor told the lawyer to officially launch the complaints in his office on grounds that the case deserved more attention.
The case is slated for hearing on January 16, 2019.
