‘I have never heard of her’ ,South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Monica Kimani

The president of South Sudan Salva Kiir has  the knowledge of Monica Kimani;s Exixtence in South Sudan saying that it might not have been her ties with South Sudan that caused her death as there were any foreigners doing business. He said that if any of his generals are implicated, he will not stop them from being investigated.

Speaking on Citizen TV’s Jeff Koinange Live (JKL) show, President Kiir said he had never known or heard anything about Ms. Kimani neither does he know whoever she was engaging herself with.

A local daily reported that Ms. Kimani Moved to Rambek in South Sudan where her father Paul Ngarama worked in 2013 and got a job at Lt, General Daniel Awet Akot’s office, who was a Governor at the time.

She was then reported to have grown through the ranks while working for the Governor and accompanied him everywhere he went.

After General Akot was appointed Deputy Speaker in the National Legislative Assembly of South Sudan, he moved with Monica, who had stopped working for him, to Juba where she was trying to expand her family’s courier services business.

The 29-year Business woman Monica, was found slaughtered and her body dumped inside a bathtub in her house in Kilimani, Nairobi County. She was buried at her home in Nakuru County on October 1.

The main suspects in Monica’s murder are Joseph Kuria Irungu and his fiance Jacque Maribe who are currently in detension. Maribe is being held at Langata Women’s Prison while Irungu is being held at Industrial Area Remand Prison in Nairobi.

Monica Kimani's funeral

Monica Kimani’s father Paul Ngarama had dismissed claims that his daughter was married to South Sudanese politician and former warlord Daniel Awet Akot, but admits that the politician is “very close” to the family.

Close relatives and friends had claimed that Ms Kimani was married to Mr Akot, and that it is through this connection that the family’s fortunes have improved over the past three years.

As they say time heals,maybe as time goes by the real culprits will be caught,justice served and the family and friends of Monica will find Closure.

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