A missing businessman was on Tuesday, October 6, found dead near Sagana River, six days after his disappearance.
Wilfred Murigu, a former director at the Ragati tea factory, is said to have been abandoned in his vehicle along the Karatina-Mukurweini road near Gatiki bridge.
Alhough Murigu's personal effects were found intact, his mobile phone was missing.
Mathira East DCI detective Nicholas Mutinda indicated that the circumstances leading to Murigu's death were being investigated, with the detectives suspecting that he might have been murdered.
"It was initially thought that he took his own life but we might rule out this theory,” Mutinda told Daily Nation.
He added that mobile phone signals could be traced to Mwea, Kirinyaga County, which was suspicious and led detectives to thinking that he could have been murdered.
"We are waiting for data from mobile service providers to establish which line of investigation to take," he stated.
The body has been taken to Karatina Jamii Hospital mortuary.
The case came days after a businessman who went missing on Wednesday, September 30, was found dead at a beach along Lake Victoria.
The body could not immediately be identified and took the forensic team around three to four hours, because it had decomposed.
At the same time, police in Thika are still trying to piece up information of businessman who has been missing.
His disappearance puzzled his family following the discovery of a suicide note in one of the businessman's cars, a yellow lorry which he used for his general merchandise wholesale business.
Authorities are also trying to establish whether any other party was involved in the disappearance. The officers are trying to establish if the suicide note was written in his actual handwriting besides analysing the call made to his driver to collect the vehicle.
