Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested the prime suspect in the murder of slain acting Nairobi Hospital Finance Director Eric Maigo, has been arrested.
According to a statement by DCI on Wednesday, September 27, the suspect was nabbed on Tuesday night at the Olympic Village in Kibra.
"The suspect, who detectives have established is a juvenile aged 16, was arrested at Olympic village in the sprawling Kibera slums last night after sleuths received information regarding her whereabouts through the #FichuakwaDCI hotline number.
"Immediately after her arrest, the teenager was whisked to DCI headquarters for interrogation before she was booked at Muthaiga police station," part of the statement read.
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The DCI appealed for information from the public after the suspect was captured in a CCTV footage scaling perimeter walls close to the scene of the murder, prompting detectives to launch a manhunt across the country.
According to an autopsy report, Eric Maigo was stabbed a total of 25 times and died due to external and internal bleeding.
Detectives recovered two blood-stained knives believed to have been the murder weapons were recovered from the scene of the crime.
