Detectives attached to Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) have arrested the prime suspect behind the murder of a student at Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology.
The 23-year-old Christine Ambani was found murdered on July 13, 2021, with her neck bearing deep stab wounds in Githurai area, Kiambu County.
Kalio Makokha, a student at Mt. Kenya University, was arrested in Ruai yesterday night with a mobile phone belonging to the late student.
“Special Service detectives at 2am Tuesday morning stormed a room that he had rented in Chokaa area within Kayole and arrested Makokha who has been on the run since committing the crime and has been engaging detectives in a cat and mouse game, in the populated eatstlands area of Kayole,” stated DCI.
The suspect is said to have confessed to the killing of Christine.
According to DCI, Christine had left the Mwihoko based University in the morning, to meet her boyfriend in Githurai town, 15 kilometres away.
“Described by her friends as charming and outgoing,Christine was prior to their meeting upbeat and looking forward to their date. However, she did not know that she was walking into a death trap, laid by non other than her boyfriend Innocent Kalio Makokha,” stated DCI.
Detectives said that the two booked themselves into a guest room in an arrangement that according to the management would only last for a few hours.
This, detectives established was because the semester’s Continuous Assessment Tests were being administered at the university and Christine was due to sit for a paper that afternoon.
Christine is said to had left the college accompanied by a friend, who was to have her hair plaited in Githurai, as she waited for her.
However, Makokha had different plans.
“He emerged from the room later and topped up the earlier paid amount, to last them for the entire night. Detectives have established that it is during this night that the boyfriend turned killer, brutally murdered Christine, by stabbing her on the neck savagely and left her bleeding to her last breath,” sleuths stated.
The 23-year-old took over Christine’s phone and logged into Christine’s family WhatsApp group.
Posing as Christine, he sent a message asking family members to send her Sh87,000 claiming that she wanted to refund her boyfriend (Makokha) the money he had spent to help her settle in the college.
Detectives have since discovered that the suspect is a dangerous criminal, who has been arrested on several other occasions and set free under unclear circumstances.
On February 2, 2021, Makokha was identified as the culprit behind themurder of his brother, his brother’s wife and their one year-old baby.
In unclear circumstances, he killed the three by setting their house ablaze while they were inside.
The matter was investigated by Mumias based detectives under reference number DCI/CR/NO925/36/2021 and the case file forwarded to the DPP for further action.
He was arrested, charged and remanded at Kakamega G.K Prison, however, the case was withdrawn under unclear circumstances and the suspect was set free.
Makokha will be arraigned in court to answer to murder charges.