Monica Kimani Case: Police Expose Connection Between Jowie & Recce Squad Officer

File image of Jowie Irungu in court on November 21, 2019
File image of Jowie Irungu in court on November 21, 2019.
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Police have unravelled the connection between Joseph Irungu alias Jowie and a mystery Recce Squad officer attached to the US embassy.

In a testimony before the High Court on Monday, July 18, Chief Inspector of Police, Maxwell Otieno, revealed to the Court that the duo were together hours before the 2018 murder incident.

Otieno disclosed that the elite squad officer told investigative officers that Jowie had directed him to wait at a petrol station as he went to see Monica.

Media personality Jacque Maribe and Joseph 'Jowie' Irungu
Former Citizen TV Journalist Jacque Maribe and Joseph Itrungu appearing in court on Wednesday, February 11, 2022.
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Further, it was revealed that Jowie had a handgun in the car - which he took before leaving for Monica's house.

“The recce officer told us that Jowie returned past 11 pm and he looked disturbed. Jowie told the officer that he had a disagreement with the person he had gone to see,”  Otieno testified.

In his testimony, the Inspector added that Jowie took a taxi to Monica's house even as the officer waited for him at the petrol station located along Mbagathi Way.

Otieno divulged that Jowie also changed his clothes mid-way with some of the items found in the Recce officer's house hours after he was arrested in 2018.

“While on the way, he removed a firearm from the car’s dashboard and hoisted it. He also took a white kanzu and a brownish coat from a bag in the back seat of the car, then alighted and took a taxi,” the cop testified.

It was also revealed to the Court that Jowie used a fake ID to identify himself to guards manning apartments where Monica lived.

Earlier,  Dominic Hosea, whose ID was used by Jowie testified that his identification card got lost at Jowie and Jackie Maribe's apartments where he had gone to make some deliveries.

“I told the guard that I did not get my ID. I informed him of my name and ID number. He said they could not trace it but they would look for it.

“He told me he was not the one on duty in the morning and asked me to come the next day. The next day, September 18, we returned to Lang’ata and found the same guard,” Hosea testified in January.

Businesswoman Monica Kimani
An image of the late businesswoman Monica Kimani who died on September 19, 2018 at her Kilimani apartment.
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