One of the suspect’s in the priest’s murder who after claiming to be an Illuminati member. /DCI.
NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 25 – Investigations on the murder of a Catholic priest Father Michael Maingi Kyengo who was abducted from Machakos has taken a new twist after a suspect claimed he sacrificed his life to get rich in line with the Illuminati cult.
Kavinya Mwangangi aged 46 told detectives he is a member of the secret cult when he was arrested at Kategi village in Embu County on Thursday.
“Detectives are further investigating the possibility of the murder of the priest by the suspect and his accomplice Michael Mutunga being connected to a cult in which Mutunga is suspected to be part of,” the DCI twitted on Thursday soon after the new arrest.
Detectives said they also found a “filled application form (by Mutunga) to join Illuminati Cult in September 2018.” The form was found in Mwangangi’s house.
A detectives involved in the investigation told Capital FM News that one of the suspect’s has told them that they killed the priest “so that he can be rich.”
“That is something we are investigating because that is what the suspect said,” he said.
Other items recovered, detectives said, are blood-stained clothes, mobile phones and SIM cards used to siphon money from the slain priest’s mobile phone on the night he was murdered and a notebook bearing names and phone numbers of people suspected to be members of the Secret Society Cult.
“We are following all the leads to understand what happened, the motive and all those who were involved must face justice,” said George Kinoti, the DCI Director, “We will follow all the leads to the logical conclusion.”
The priest’s mutilated body was exhumed on October 16 from a shallow grave on a dry seasonal river bed in Mbeere South where detectives were led by one of the suspects.
The priest’s body was cut into pieces and stuffed in a gunny bag which was found buried in a shallow grave. /CFM-FILE.
Evidence so far gathered by detectives show that the priest was kidnapped while traveling to his Thatha parish in Masinga within Machakos County.
He was later taken to Mwea, at a house belonging to one of the suspects where he was killed before his body was cut into pieces and stuffed in a gunny bag which was found buried in a shallow grave on a dry river bed in Embu.
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.
Detectives said they have since established that some money was withdrawn from the priest’s bank account during the period he was missing.
One of the suspects has since been arraigned and police allowed to detain him until next to complete investigations.
Earlier this week, Kinoti said detectives had recovered transaction receipts and other evidence showing how a prime suspect in custody withdrew money from his account, two days after his brutal killing.
The receipts and other evidence was recovered at a house in Mnarani, Kilifi County, according to detectives at the DCI Headquarters who are investigating the murder.
“We have also identified where the priest’s vehicle was re-painted from black to white,” a detective told Capital FM News, “We found the receipts in another rented house in Kilifi where the prime suspect had gone to stay after committing the murder.”
In Kilifi the main suspect is said to have rented the house where blood-stained clothes, supermarket receipts, and newly purchased items worth Sh60,000 were recovered.
The recovery follows the discovery of another house in Mwea where the priest was killed and a knife thrown in a pit latrine. The killer weapon was recovered last week.
Kinoti said, “the house was rented two days after the act.”
Detectives have said they are also investigating claims by one of the suspects in custody who confessed to have had had a romantic relationship with the deceased after ‘love’ messages were retrieved from the priest’s mobile phone and the suspect.
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