Alleged assassin detained for 30 days
The alleged assassin of Kasipul Member of Parliament Charles Ong’ondo Were has been detained for 30 days to allow completion of investigations.
This is after the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution informed a Chief Magistrate Court based at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport that the suspect Isaac Kuria was arrested in Isebania, near the Kenya-Tanzania border, while allegedly attempting to flee the country and Investigators need time to complete investigations.
Isaac Kuria, also known as “Kush”, is the 11th suspect to be arraigned in Court in connection with the late Kasipul legislator Charles Ong’ondo Were’s murder, and is the suspected hitman.
Investigators told the Court that Kuria’s arrest followed a dramatic manhunt through several counties that he moved through while trying to evade arrest, but they caught up with him last week at Isebania near the Kenya-Tanzania border.
Last Friday, the court allowed the detention of Were’s bodyguard, his driver and a boda boda rider who allegedly ferried Kuria to the crime scene.
The latest development comes even as a Milimani High Court Judge Alexander Muteti, ordered Phillip Aroko, another suspect in Were’s murder, to remain in police custody as directed by the JKIA Law Court last Friday for seven days.
His lawyers had on Friday filed a habeas corpus before Milimani’s High Court demanding that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations officers present him dead or alive.
Aroko requested to withdraw the application, arguing that the orders sought had already been overtaken by events.