A knife detectives say was recovered from a pit latrine in at a house in Gategi shopping centre in Mwea; detectives said it was used to butcher the priest. /COURTESY.
NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 18 – Police have arrested two more suspects linked to the brutal murder of catholic priest Father Michael Kyengo who was abducted from Thatha parish in Machakos.
DCI boss George Kinoti said one of the men picked up on Thursday is believed to have been involved in the actual killing while the second is the one who drove the priest’s car to and from a house in Embu where the priest was slashed to death.
The suspect believed to have taken part in the killing was identified as Michael Muthini Mutunga while the one who drove the priest’s car is Solomon Mutava Wambua.
Kinoti has told Capital FM News that detectives have visited and secured a house in Mwea where the priest was killed before his body was cut into pieces and stuffed in a gunny bag which was disposed off in a shallow grave.
The body of Father Michael Kyengo of Thatha Parish in Machakos was exhumed on Wednesday by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) who were led to the scene by one of the suspects/DCI
Detectives from the DCI’s Homicide department are now piecing together evidence to charge three men already in custody over the murder whose motive they are also seeking to establish.
“They must face justice,” Kinoti told Capital FM News on telephone from Chile’s capital Santiago, “we have no doubt that the suspects in custody played a role in this murder.”
He said more suspects were being sought.
The priest’s mutilated body was exhumed on Wednesday from a shallow grave where detectives were led by one of the suspects.
Police said the priest was kidnapped, robbed, killed and his body cut into pieces before it was stuffed in a gunny bag and transported to Mashamba area in Mbeere South where it was buried.
With the help of new technology, detectives from the DCI’s homicide department pieced together all the information and traced his vehicle to Mombasa Road where they exchanged gunshots with occupants and managed to arrest one. The rest fled.
It is the suspect who led the officers to Embu where they dumped the body.
Detectives said they have since established that some money was withdrawn from the priest’s bank account during the period he was missing.
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