Suspect in MP Muchai’s murder denies texting co-accused
Jane Wanjiru Kimani alias Shiro, the fifth suspect in the murder of the late Kabete Member of Parliament (MP) George Muchai case on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, vehemently denied having had a house in Kangemi.
Appearing before Magistrate Lucas Onyina at the Milimani Law Courts for cross-examination during the defense hearing, Wanjiru accused Senior Sergeant Francis Ole Singila of lying that he took her to a Kangemi house.
Wanjiru said that after she was arrested on February 13, 2015, from Murera farm in Ruiru, where she lived with her grandmother, mother and aunt, she was taken to Nairobi Area police headquarters and not Kangemi.
“I had no house in Kangemi as stated, and when I was arrested, I was taken directly to Nairobi Area. The story of being taken to Kangemi is a lie, and I had no house in Kangemi,” Wanjiru told the court.
Sergeant Singila had informed the court that after arresting Wanjiru and taking her to her house in Kangemi, they found two rounds of ammunition hidden under a concrete stone at the doorstep of Wanjiru’s Kangemi house.
Denies knowing co-accused
During the cross-examination by state lawyer Willy Momanyi, Wanjiru also denied being at Gaza Club in Kangemi on February 7, 2015, at 7:00 pm in the company of the third accused, Mustafa Kimani alias Musto.
She stated that she did not know the suspect earlier until the time they were arraigned in court for the charges, saying that it was the first time she saw and met him.
However, she also said that she did not see him well the first day as she had been badly beaten and could barely see because of the injuries she had sustained.
“Will I be lying when I tell this court that it was not the first time you were meeting the third accused in court that day?” Lawyer Momanyi asked Wanjiru.
In her response, Wanjiru insisted that the state lawyer was lying insisting she had not met Mustafa before and she was not with him at Kangemi Gaza Club that evening as recorded.
Further, Momanyi asked Wanjiru whether she was aware of a phone that was produced as an exhibit, and it was said that she and the third accused, Mustafa, gave it to the accused number seven, Simon Wambugu, on that same date while in Kangemi.
Stolen phones
Wanjiru said that she was asked about stolen phones by the police officer who arrested her but she cannot explain why the officer asked because she did not probe to know why he had asked about the stolen phones.
The phone that was an exhibit in court and that was said to have been handled by Wanjiru, Mustafa and Wambugu was stolen on February 6, 2015, towards the morning of February 7, 2015.
She refuted that she was in possession of a phone and insisted she did not have any phone or SIM card, and there was no way she could have communicated to the two, adding that she also did not know them.
Lawyer Momanyi also asked Wanjiru whether she was aware that officer Stephen Mwangi PW35 listed many phone numbers she had used that day to communicate with her fellow co-accused.
According to a report given to the court of exhibit 57A, it was recorded that Wanjiru texted some of her fellow suspects ‘nilipata text ni Shiro’, a record Wanjiru strongly denied, insisting she had no means to communicate with anyone, terming it a lie.
Further defense hearing will proceed on Thursday, March 27, 2025, from 10:00 am.
