NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 7 -Three serving police officers have been implicated in the assassination of prominent mental health expert Dr Victoria Nthunya Mutiso, with detectives revealing that one allegedly supplied the murder weapon, another pulled the trigger, and a third helped coordinate the carefully planned killing.

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The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Friday said Inspector Kenneth Kipkemboi Sang, the Officer Commanding Nderi Police Post under Kikuyu Police Station, is believed to have played a central role in coordinating the operation by linking the financiers to the execution team and providing the firearm used in the murder. He remains at large.

Police Constable Elijah Kibelion Kimoi, attached to Karinde Police Post, has been arrested after investigators identified him as the officer who fatally shot Dr Mutiso, while Police Constable Bett Kiplangat Collins of Thogoto Police Post has also been forensically placed at the scene but is still on the run.

Addressing the media, Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin termed the officers’ alleged involvement a betrayal of the public trust.

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“The involvement of these rogue officers represents a grave betrayal of the uniform and the public trust. The Directorate will pursue them with the full force of the law,” Amin said.

Amin said the breakthrough followed an intensive forensic and intelligence-led investigation into the July 29 killing of the former Director of the African Institute of Mental and Brain Health, who was gunned down while travelling in an Uber to her office in Nairobi’s Upper Hill.

According to investigators, the Uber was intercepted after two Toyota Prado vehicles strategically blocked its path before a gunman fired several shots into the vehicle, fatally wounding Dr Mutiso. Although the driver rushed her to Kenyatta National Hospital, she succumbed to three gunshot wounds.

The DCI said investigations identified Daniel Mwangi Njoroge as the coordinator of the operation.

Detectives allege he hired the two Toyota Prado vehicles used in the ambush, facilitated the movement of the execution team and personally drove one of the vehicles that boxed in the victim’s car moments before the shooting.

Vehicle tracking data placed both Prados, registration numbers KDE 400W and KDH 600A, at the crime scene.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya