Two more suspects in connection with the serial murders at Kware in the Mukuru kwa Njenga slums of Nairobi, where dismembered bodies have been recovered at a dumpsite have been arrested.
The first person of interest, Amos Momanyi Mogusa, was apprehended at City Cabanas on Monday for being in possession of a mobile phone belonging to one of the victims, Roselyn Akoth Ogongo, whose remains were positively identified by her kin at the Nairobi Funeral Home on the same day.
When recording their statements with homicide detectives, Ogongo’s family identified their relative’s handbag among the items recovered at the residence of the main suspect, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, who was arrested on Monday and arraigned in court on Tuesday.
“In her statement, a sister to the deceased noted the last time she ever saw her slain sister, she stepped out of the house with the handbag,” said the DCI in a statement Tuesday. After being interrogated, Mogusa led detectives to one Moses Ogembo, who reportedly sold him the cellular device.
“Upon arrest of Amos Momanyl Mogusu at City Cabanas and recovery of the mobile phone yesterday, he led detectives to Ogembo’s house at Mukuru kwa Reuben, who was found with a total of 154 used mobile phones stashed In his house,” said the DCI.
Ogembo allegedly admitted to purchasing used phones from Khalusha.
Khalusha, appearing in court on Tuesday where the DCI was granted 30 days custodial orders to detain him pending completion of investigations, alleged that police coerced him into confessing to the killings.
“My client, as he sits there, is in dire need of urgent medical attention…for reasons that the period under detention, he was subjected to molestation, torture and the confession that the public is being treated to having murdered 42 persons is laughable,” lawyer John Maina Ndegwa argued on Khalusha’s behalf before the Makadara Law Courts.
Similarly, the DCI added that the family of Imelda Judith Karenya, alleged to be Khalusha’s wife and first victim, have confirmed that one of the nine IDs recovered at the suspect’s house belongs to their kin.
