John Kyama Wambua
A Nairobi Magistrate’s court has allowed the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to detain a murder suspect involved in chopping his wife’s body into pieces for 21 days pending completion of investigations.
The Milimani Principal Magistrate Gilbert Shikwe ruled that John Kyama Wambua be detained at DCI Starehe for the 21 days sought by the police to complete its investigations into the murder of the late Joy Frida Munani.
“The respondent be detained at DCI Starehe for 21 days pending completion of investigations,” ruled Magistrate Shikwe.
This is after the police had moved to court, seeking 21 days to detain Kyama for suspicions of killing and chopping his wife’s body into pieces and attempting to dump the body.
The police, through Corporal Kasim Yakub, told the magistrate that the entity requires the mentioned days to undertake DNA tests to ascertain the actual age and identity of the deceased, as there were no identification documents recovered during the arrest.
According to Kasim, the police need time to inform the late Frida’s family members who reside within Kitui County about the demise of their daughter and the involvement of her husband, Wambua.
“Your honor, the investigations into the circumstances and facts surrounding the murder incident and involvement of the respondent are incomplete, as we have not even informed the family members about their daughter’s untimely demise,” stated Kasim.
According to a mysterious application produced in court, Frida, who happens to be Kyama’s wife, was murdered on the 20th of January this year in the Kasanova area within Huruma.
It is alleged that Kyama was stopped while carrying a bag on his back, looking suspicious, by police officers from Huruma police station.
Kasim told the court that the officers stopped him and conducted a search on the bag he was carrying and discovered human body parts stashed in a nylon cement carrier.
Upon interrogation, he led the officers to his house, where some other parts of the body were recovered, and he confessed they belonged to his wife, the late Fridah.
Kyama admitted to the police that he found his wife with another man and when they got to the house an argument issued
that led to him committing the act and later cutting the body in order to dispose of it.
The court heard that the police officers from Huruma Police Station and DCI Starehe did a site analysis and recovered one of the murder weapons in the respondent’s residence.
The police is to conduct its investigations and arraign Kyama in court on the 12th of February this year.
