Jacque Maribe, a former Citizen TV Journalist, has told the court that on the day Monica Kimani was murdered he was in a meeting with former Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko.
Kimani was found dead in a bathtub in 2019 at her Lamuria Gardens Apartment in Kilimani, Nairobi.
Maribe says she was with the governor's entourage at a join in Westalnds when the alleged murder of Kimani was happening.
She said that on the very day, the governor had been hosted on Citizen TV and that it is after the interview that they proceeded to the Westlands joint with the Governor's handlers.
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“I stayed at the station until 10 pm after Sonko asked me to wait. We then went to the lounge with his two handlers," she told the court.
The TV journalist revealed that it is there that Jowie Irungu, the prime suspect in the murder, joined them.
She told the court that she never knew of Kimani, before the murder happened and only came to learn of him when she was reading a news bulletin.
Maribe said she could never have had the motive to murder Kimani because she never met her, known her or even interacted with her.
"I did not know Monica Kimani. I had never met her. I had never communicated with her. I had never discussed with the first accused person or anyone else concerning Monica. I had no motive to want her dead," she told the court.
"I learnt about her death when I was reading a news bulletin. I urge this court to acquit me."
