INDEPENDENT FRESH AND VOLLEYBALL WORLD CUP DIFFERENT FIVE SENATORS 28 IN LAVISH SH7M SEPTEMBER 2018 FRIDAY TRIP TO JAPAN KSh60 (TSh1,000, USh2,000) PAGE 6 MURDER CLEAN EX-GOVERNOR CREDITS HIS MILLIONS TO SALARY, STOCKS, INVESTMENT Kidero reveals wealth, fights EACC charges It is witch-hunt, he says, as investigators target 13 parcels PG 4 Maribe at Kilimani police station where she was questioned. Father recalls Monica’s life of opulence JOHN KAMAU AND KAMORE MAINA@ eStarKenya / Grief and disbelief overcame the family and friends of slain businesswoman Monica Nyawira during her Re- quiem Mass yesterday at Happy Valley in ika. She was to turn 29 on October 10 and planned to in- troduce her family to her long-time fi ance, her father said. He was not identifi ed. Family members eulogised fl amboyant Nyawira as a determined go-getter, who was also kind and obe- dient. Her body was discovered in a bathtub last Friday at her apartment in Kilimani. Her throat was slit and her legs and hands tied from behind. rough his sobs, her father, cleric Paul Ngarama said his fi rst-born daughter had travelled back to Ken- ya from Juba, South Sudan, where she had a business. OBADO BOND RULING DELAYED TO OCTOBER 8 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONSOLATION: Migori governor Okoth Obado is hugged by former Kisumu governor Jack Ranguma at Milimani court yesterday / COLLINS KWEYU VOICES SHARON’S MURDER LAND DISPUTE EXAMS STEPHANY ZOO Obado to remain Nandi woman KNEC says 20 Are Chinese in remand for buried after 240 schools may be racist? Yes and No 12 more days days in morgue planning to cheat PAGE 19 PAGE 7 PAGE 3 PAGE 6 2 THE-STAR.CO.KE Friday, September 28, 2018 PLANNED TO INTRODUCE HER FIANCE TWO POSTMORTEMS Morticians blamed for Monica’s father says she missing Adam’s apple promised him Cruiser V8 STANLEY NJENGA @stanfl ex Morticians at the Kenyatta University Funeral Home have been blamed over the missing Adam’s apple of a Kiambu businessman. ‘ I keep looking at the door hoping you’d walk in and say, Hi Dad’ A report from the DCI before Kiambu principal magistrate Justus Kituku yesterday showed Mach- FROM PAGE 1 /“I still can’t believe aria Muriu, 43, committed suicide in his house in you’re gone, my daughter. I keep Gitamaiyu village, Kiambu, on June 19. Police docu- looking at the door hoping you’ll mented the scene before transferring the body to KU walk in and say, ‘Hi Dad’,” Ngarama Funeral Home for preservation and postmortem. said amid sobs A postmortem was conducted on June 22 by pa- “I miss your smile that melted thologists Dorothy Njeru, Peter Muriuki and Fredrick my heart. You are the most beauti- Okinyi. ey concluded the cause of death was due ful girl in the world.” to neck compression from hanging, with suspected e cleric said his daughter, chemical poisoning. known for her expensive tastes, Later the family disputed the results and fi led a suit rejected “cheap things” at a young to have a second postmortem to establish if the cause age. She refused to go to a public of death was suicide or murder. school and asked to be taken to an e second postmortem was conducted on July 4, academy, he told mourners. by Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor “You even told me you’ll never get who led a team of four. ey included the three pa- married without your own house thologists who conducted the fi rst postmortem and and a car. True to your words, you Prof Kiama Wangai. ey concluded the cause of bought yourself a car and a house. death was due to compression to the neck. e Ad- You always aimed to do better,” Ng- am’s apple was missing. arama said. e investigations showed Ngunjiri Blaise, a recep- He said his daughter had prom- tionist at the Funeral Home, confi ded in police after ised to buy him a V8 Toyota Land the issue of missing body parts was raised. He said Cruiser on her birthday. “I’m still inquired from the morticians what had transpired waiting for it, my daughter,” he and in response, they hinted a part resembling the said. e cleric said all he wants is one missing had been found and were in the process justice for his daughter. Monica Kimani’s parents Paul and Millicent Ngarama during their daughter’s of putting it back. Margaret Njuguna, a fami- Requiem Mass at Happy Valley in ika yesterday. Inset, Nyawira /JOHN KAMAU e DCI recommended the two morticians of the ly friend and Nyawira’s Sunday funeral home be blamed, saying they unprofession- school teacher, said, “We are all in justice for Nyawira,” he said. panied by a man and a woman, be- ally handled the internal organs and negligently per- shock and pain of losing a daughter Waititu proposed that the Con- lieved to be her parents. formed their duties, violating the Anatomy Act. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 FRIDAY, who was full of life. It was so cru- stitution be amended to scrap the Earlier offi cers dusted Maribe’s Last month, the court ordered Kiambu DCIO Paul elly cut short. We were all looking clause allowing bail for suspects of vehicle, which according to the in- Wambugu to investigate the whereabouts of the to her progress and success in her capital off ences, like murder. vestigators was being driven by her missing body parts and the cause of death. Kiama, a life.” Meanwhile, popular Citizen TV fi ancé Irungu last Friday. forensic pathologist, said the missing body parts are Njuguna said Nyawira never news anchor Jackie Maribe yester- On that day he is reported to have key in establishing whether Muriu committed suicide missed Sunday school. “She was- day was questioned by police about visited the apartment where Nyaw- or was strangled. Lawyer John Gikenye for the family exceptional in remembering verses her fi ance — Joseph “Jowie”Irungu ira lived. Irungu has told police he has fi led an application at the High Court after mag- and would not hesitate to present – arrested in connection with the had nothing to do with the murder istrate Kituku ruled the body of Muriu be released to during Sunday school,” she said. murder. and said he himself was attacked by the family for burial, despite missing organs. Njuguna said the family is sat- Maribe was fi rst questioned by gunmen. isfi ed with the manner in which Kilimani DCI offi cers yesterday at Homicide offi cers also revisited the case is being handled. “We are noon. en she went to DCI head- Nyawira’s house where her body thankful to the detectives who quarters along Kiambu Road for was found. Investigators said the SPREADING FAST have swiftly taken up the matter further questioning. new visit by investigators was rou- and have already arrested a prime She recorded statements with in- tine procedure after a new team suspect,” she said. vestigators. e DCI homicide unit takes over investigations. Armyworms threaten Meanwhile, leaders called for has taken over the investigations. Kilimani police chief Michael speedy investigations. Maribe arrived at the Kilimani Muchiri told journalists, “We are food security – expert Kiambu governor Ferdinand police station, almost incognito. relying on circumstantial evidence Waititu said it is painful to lose a Journalists camping at the station, and scientifi c evidence to get more child. “I’m a father of four daugh- did not realise she had arrived. e evidence. ere is a lot of photog- GEORGE MURAGE @ eStarKenya ters and it’d really pain me if any- celebrity arrived in a vehicle with raphy and dusting going on here to one hurts any of them. We want tinted windows. She was accom- get more clues.” e fall armyworm has been identifi ed as one of the major threats to food security in the East and Central Africa. e Desert Locust Control Organisation for East STAR SURVEY HIT OR MISS Africa says the pest is spreading at a worrying rate. is came as details emerged that all the nine TODAY’S QUESTION member countries of the organisation have been af- fected by the pest. Should murder DLCO director Dr Stephen Njoka said the pest is devastating and a major threat to plans by member suspects be denied countries to achieve food security. bail? Njoka said apart from Somali and Djibouti, all the other member countries have been hard-hit by the pest, which was fi rst detected two years ago. “Our YESTERDAY’S QUESTION main focus as an institution is to deal with locust and other migratory pests, but we are worried by the fall MOHAMED BIRIK EXECUTIVE IN COURT Do you support Uhuru’s armyworm which has continued to spread from one Amnesty for al Shabaab youth Murang’a water wars escalate country to the other,” he said. appointment as global Njoka spoke to the press at Enashipai Spa in Naiva- your ambassador? e government has off ered a Wrangles in Murang’a county’s sha during the organisation’s annual general meet- three-month amnesty to youths water sector continue to escalate ing. “If Kenya and neighbouring counties do not ad- YES 49% in Northeastern who have joined with executive Paul Macharia facing dress the issue of the fall armyworm, then it will be al Shabaab to surrender. Regional charges of robbery with violence. hard for the region to be food secure,” he said. commissioner Mohamed Birik said Macharia was yesterday arraigned in On migratory birds, the director said the organi- those who desert the group will court and accused of robbing Eston sation has managed to control 195 million quelea NO 51% be pardoned.