Interior Cabinet Secretary Professor Kithure Kindiki, on Wednesday, April 12, told Members of Parliament that Daniel Mutembei identified his killers before he passed on.
While responding to the questions about the progress of the investigations, Kindiki noted that investigators were gathering evidence about the suspects who had been positively identified.
The Interior Cabinet Secretary explained that Mutembei, a Chuka, Tharaka Nithi resident, was killed at night and left on the road where he was rained on till morning.
"He was recognised by villagers ferrying milk to a central collection point early in the morning.
"He was still alive at the time, and although critically injured, Mutembei was able to talk and identified those that attacked him. He gave the names of five suspects," Kindiki stated to the question raised by Chuka Igambang'ombe MP, Patrick Munene.
The villagers were kind enough to rush Mutembei to the nearby hospital, where he was placed under medication in the Intensive Care Unit.
"He was immediately taken to the hospital but the injuries were already too severe and succumbed at the Chuka Referral Hospital," Kindiki noted.
The CS further revealed that police immediately mounted an operation to arrest the named suspects but were unlucky to apprehend them.
Professor Kindiki noted that investigations were advanced, and the police would apprehend any more suspects.
The family members of Mutembei had lamented that no one had been arrested over the case since then, arguing that suspects even resorted to threatening key eyewitnesses.
“Police promised to pursue the 5 suspects, but they have not been arrested 3 weeks later. They (police) have done nothing after showing me (their) photos,” Mutembei’s father, David Ngai, had lamented earlier on.
On Monday, March 20, the five suspects moved to court and obtained anticipatory bail barring the police from arresting them.
The case was heard on Tuesday, April 12, but the police had received new orders from the presiding Judge.
"Earlier today, the case involving Daniel Mutembei murder suspects was presented before Lady Justice Lucy Gitari at the Chuka High Court.
"I am glad that this afternoon the court has canceled the anticipatory bail that was earlier issued and gave a warrant of arrest for the suspects so that they can be presented to answer a murder case," Chuka Igambang'ombe MP, Patrick Munene, told Kenyans.co.ke.
