A board member of a parastatal is among three new suspects
arrested in connection with the murder of Kasipul MP Ong’ondo Were.
The board member was picked up from the road in Nakuru and
driven to Nairobi for grilling.
This is after he was adversely mentioned in the saga. Also
arrested was the bodyguard and driver to Were.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen confirmed the
developments.
“It is shocking that some suspects should have taken good
care of him,” CS Murkomen revealed investigations have linked members of Were’s
close circle to the murder.
Director of DCI Mohamed Amin said one of the two guns
recovered in an operation on Tuesday night was used in the murder.
“Ballistics tests have confirmed one of the guns is the one
that was used in the murder,” he said.
The bodyguard and
driver were detained by detectives handling the matter after they gave
inconsistent statements on what they knew or did not know about the murder.
They were not hurt when a gunman opened fire at a traffic
jam in Nairobi killing Were on the spot.
A postmortem has shown he was shot five times and that the
bullets raptured vital organs including his heart.
Were who was serving his second term in Parliament, was shot
and killed on April 30 along Valley Road near the City Mortuary.
His driver together with the body guard who was seated on
the backseat escaped unhurt.
The bodyguard jumped out of the car as the gunman had hoped
onto a getaway motorcycle.
Witnesses said he chased the motorcycle for a short distance
before he raced back to the car to join the driver and rushed the bleeding MP
to then nearby Nairobi Hospital.
The detectives handling the matter have been moving around
with the two to reconstruct scenes where the MP was before he was trailed and
shot dead.
This came as police on Tuesday raided houses in Kayole’s
Chokaa area and recovered a pistol that was used in the murder.
The team also found a second pistol that is now under tests
to confirm if it had been used in any crimes.
Ballistic tests show the weapon that killed Were had been
used to commit crimes in three incidents in Kayole, Komarocks and Ndumberi in
Kiambu county.
This followed an analysis on spent bullets that were
recovered from the scene of the shooting and the deceased’s body.
The police also recovered shoes and a bag that the killer
had on the day the MP was killed.
The man was captured on camera wearing the same shoes. He
also carried the bag that is believed to have contained the gun used in the
murder
