Evidences incriminating Recce squad officer in Monica’s murder

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Man CCTV’d with Jowie at Monica’s home

Thirty-one-year old Jennings Orlando Odhiambo’s arrest was the latest update on Monica Kimani’s death as per yesterday. Detectives believe Mr Orlando was the man who accompanied Joseph Irungu on the night Monica was killed in cold blood thanks be to a CCTV footage.

Orlando was seized by detectives in a house in Nairobi’s Embakasi estate on Thursday evening. He was locked up at the Muthaiga police station overnight before being arraigned without fanfare in a Kiambu court yesterday.The arrest was confirmed by Mr George Kinoti last evening.

According to Saturday Nation detectives said they believe Mr Orlando was the man who accompanied Joseph Irungu, alias Jowie, on the night Monica was killed in cold blood in her Lamuria Gardens apartment in Kilimani, Nairobi, on September 19.

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Mr Orlando Odhiambo

Detectives privy to the investigations said Orlando was arrested by officers from the Serious Crimes wing of the Directorate of Criminal Intelligence (DCI).He was interrogated at the DCI headquarters before being taken to Muthaiga police station where he spent his night.

Yesterday, he was driven back to the DCI headquarters where an identification parade was conducted with a source privy to the investigation saying that he was “positively identified”. It was not very clear who identified him.

The source further revealed Orlando resembled a person who was in the car driven by Irungu. The footage of the moment the car drove into the apartment bloc was captured on CCTV cameras on Dennis Pritt Road.“Detectives are almost convinced that Orlando is the man they have been looking for for almost a month now,” the source said.

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Monica Kimani

Detectives led by Maxwel Otieno have been pursuing leads that Irungu was accompanied by another person on the night Monica was killed.

Yesterday evening, detectives conducted a search at Orlando’s house at the Recce headquarters at the Ruiru General Service Unit camp.

Detectives said that they were searching for the ‘killer weapon’ used on the fateful night.

That would mean they were looking for the knife believed to have been used to slit Monica’s throat.

The detectives were also in search of a ‘sizeable amount’ of money believed to have been in Monica’s possession.

Monica had just landed from Juba, South Sudan, where she was based and was set to fly out again, ostensibly to Dubai, before she was killed.

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Orlando was arraigned at the Kiambu law courts at around 11 am yesterday under heavy security. However, he did not plead to any charges.

Kiambu Resident Magistrate Justus Kituku allowed the police to detain him for 14 days to allow for more investigations. He also directed the prosecution to present Orlando in court on November 2.

Orlando’s appearance in court was shrouded in secrecy with detectives using every trick in the book to ensure that journalists were not present in court when the suspect was charged.

Sources who attended the brief session said the car that took Orlando to court was escorted by heavily armed officers in a separate car.

Orlando, a constable, was taken back to Muthaiga police station and locked in. He is today expected back at the DCI headquarters for further questioning.

Tracing the weapon and the money believed to have been in Monica’s house will help the detectives firm up the case.

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Mr Orlando

Investigators had in the earlier stages of the case said that the manner in which Monica was killed indicated that the suspect was well-trained.

Officers who know Orlando said that he was a fitness enthusiast who loved participating in sports and going to the gym.

Mr Irungu was charged alongside 30-year-old journalist Jacqueline Wanjiru Maribe for the murder of Ms Kimani however they denied the charges.

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