The detectives investigating the murder of businessman Jacob Juma have hinted that Deputy President William Ruto might be questioned regarding the incident.
Addressing the press on Tuesday, Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI) Ndegwa Muhoro was taken to task on whether the DP would be interrogated since he had been mentioned by Juma as being 'obsessed' with killing him.
"The person who is obsessed with plans to kill me is William Ruto. I am aware about it. I know that my assassination was discussed on Tuesday," Juma posted on Twitter in 2015.
Muhoro responded saying: "There is nothing that will stop us from summoning or talking to anyone we deem as a person of interest”.
According to the DCI boss, detectives had identified 20 "persons of interest" with 10 of them having already been interrogated in regard to Juma's murder.
Mr Muhoro disclosed that among those already questioned included: Lawyer Ahmedinasir Abdulahi, businessman Brian Yongo, a woman who was with Juma on the day of the murder, a worker at Juma's house and a few of his friends.
The DCI director affirmed that they would follow all theories and leads including people mentioned as having threatened the deceased.
At the same time, Muhoro released details of preliminary investigations into the incident including video footage tracking Juma's movement on the ill-fated day.
The DCI report stated that his movements as captured by the Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras showed that at 7.34pm, he was driving on Waiyaki Way opposite Westlands bus terminus heading towards the CBD in the company of a lady.
According to the investigators, Juma was last captured by the surveillance cameras at 8.14pm while on Argwings Kodhek Road near Yaya Centre towards Ole Odume.
The DCI added that the probe team was also able to recover two spent cartridges after using Advanced Detector Equipment (ADE) and had forwarded them to ballistics experts for analysis.
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