A man suspected to have killed Kiru High School Principal Solomon Mwangi on Wednesday stunned a Kiambu court after he gave a detailed confession on how he had planned and executed the murder of the deceased.
Julius Kariuki alias Karis gave a chilling testimony on how the principal’s wife, Jane Muthoni, contracted her to murder her husband, hours before he could meet Education CS Fred Matiang’i.
Karis told High Court Judge Joel Ngugi that he was introduced to Ms Muthoni by another suspect identified as Gikuyu.
When the three met, the wife of the deceased informed them that he needed her husband killed.
She promised to pay them a tidy sum of Sh400,000 with an initial downpayment of Sh100,000.
The woman added that she had a plan to drug her husband while the two men would assist in the killing.
On the 6th of November, Karis told the court that he and Gikuyu were called by Ms Muthoni who arranged a quick meeting at Ndarugo motel along the Thika Superhighway.
They went to the venue and were later joined by the principal’s wife, who had driven with her unconscious husband.
Karis further narrated that the deceased man’s wife drove to a nearby forest where they tied her husband with a sisal rope around his neck before hanging him on a tree.
Unfortunately for them, Muthoni, who had stayed back in the car run away before she could clear the Sh300,000 promised - this is the point when things started to go south.
The next day, Monday the 6th of November marked the beginning of the KCSE examinations and as fate would have it, Matiang’i made an impromptu visit to Mathioya where the Kiru High School principal was expected to pick the KCSE examinations.
The education officials could not explain why Kiru High's papers had not been picked, with a disappointed Matiang’i threatening to have the missing principal interdicted.
However, the officials informed the CS that Mr Mwangi had been a very obedient teacher and something could have been wrong. It was then that the Education CS instructed the CID to track the principal’s phone and establish what might have happened.
The principal's body was later discovered with the wife and the other suspects being arrested after analysis of call logs.
