Police, on Wednesday, November 13, finally captured a suspect said to be the leader of a gang behind a spate of killings in Matungu, Kakamega County.
According to a Daily Nation report, the suspect, Kenson Bramwel Odera aka Brian, was believed to be the leader of the 42 brothers sect that was been terrorising area residents.
Confirming the incidence, Matungu Sub-County police boss Alex Ndili disclosed that the sect had killed at least 20 people in the region since the beginning of the year.
He further disclosed that the criminal had covered his tracks in the past and that at one time, fled to Uganda after he discovered that police were getting closer to capturing him.
“We have been looking for him and others who masterminded the killings and led young boys into maiming and killing innocent people in Matungu,” stated Ndili.
On Wednesday, however, his fate was sealed after officers who were working on a tip-off from the public nabbed him while he was hiding inside his mother's house.
Ndili explained that the officers laid a trap and accessed the house where they found him with some paraphernalia believed to have been used by the gang.
They included police uniforms and equipment used to break door grills.
In May this year, several people including Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala, were arrested in connection with the killings only to be released for lack of evidence linking them.
Malala later threatened to sue the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Inspector General of police Hilary Mutyambai for illegal detention.
"How can I be booked on incitement to violence charge in the OB, yet they plan to charge me with murder?” Malala wondered at the time.
