“Juma’s phones were working. The police could have called his family or friends to inform them before taking further action. Rushing the body to the mortuary, not cordoning off the area and marking it as a crime scene is suspicious,” Wanjigi said.
A man who operates a boda boda near the alleged scene also had doubts. “Many vehicles pass through this road. It is not possible that they can kill someone here silently without anyone noticing,” he said.
Security guards near the entrance of Lenana School on duty that night said they did not hear any shooting A few feet from where the car stopped is a steep valley which family members believe the car ought to have rolled into given that there was a gun fight. Women who tend to tree nurseries by the roadside near the scene said they only learnt of the accident on Friday morning when a few people came to witness what was happening.
“The police made no effort to control those coming here. They were only interested in towing the car and the dead man away,” said one woman, contradicting police reports that the body was taken to City Mortuary at 11pm Thursday.
A man who operates a boda boda near the alleged scene also had doubts. “Many vehicles pass through this road. It is not possible that they can kill someone here silently without anyone noticing,” he said.
Security guards near the entrance of Lenana School on duty that night said they did not hear any shooting A few feet from where the car stopped is a steep valley which family members believe the car ought to have rolled into given that there was a gun fight. Women who tend to tree nurseries by the roadside near the scene said they only learnt of the accident on Friday morning when a few people came to witness what was happening.
“The police made no effort to control those coming here. They were only interested in towing the car and the dead man away,” said one woman, contradicting police reports that the body was taken to City Mortuary at 11pm Thursday.
The women said no one walks in the area from 7pm for fear of wild animals found in Ngong Forest.
Miriam, Juma’s wife, only knew of her husband’s death the next day.
Ngong Road has in the past suffered endless traffic snarl ups, sometimes from something as trivial as a stalled car on one side of the road. For a murder to occur on an open road in such a grisly manner, coupled with Kenyans’ habit of slowing down and peeking out of car windows to see what is happening, traffic would have at least backed up on the busy roads.
The police say Juma’s car was forced off the road and into a ditch by a saloon car. Gunmen from the saloon car and another on a motorcycle shot at the car. The police say that after firing severally at the car, the gunmen realised Juma’s Mercedes’s was armored.
One of the assailants then walked up to the car and using a hammer, shattered the driver’s window and proceeded to shoot at Juma from close range. What is the possibility of someone breaking open a window on which bullets had ricocheted off?
When The Standard on Sunday visited the murder scene, there was nothing to indicate a serious gun confrontation.
