A man in Mombasa is facing murder charges after killing a woman and using her property to take loans from a shylock.
The man, Robert Waliaula Kinisu, was positively identified by Hamisi Mohamed who is a shylock based at the coastal town.
Last year, Kinisu visited Hamisi’s business which is located in Mtwapa and asked for money to help take his wife to hospital. He deposited a blender, iron box, Juice mixer, and a toaster in exchange for the loan.
“It was at about 8;30 pm and he said he needed the money urgently. Since I had no cash, I sent him 1,550 via M-Pesa,” Hamisi told the court.
From the M-Pesa transaction message, Hamisi concluded that Kinisu’s name was Brown Kipande. A few days later, Kinisu returned with more electronics and he was given Sh. 2,020.
He claimed that he needed the money to sort out some issues at the hospital where his wife was admitted. he then disappeared.
Unknown to Hamisi, all the items that he was depositing had been stolen from a woman Kinisu had killed and stuffed in a wardrobe.
“After three weeks, I was shocked when police officers knocked on my door. They told me I was required at the Mtwapa police station to record a statement and I was first questioned about the M-Pesa transaction,” Hamisi told the court.
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Hamisi was taken to the police station and locked up for two days. “On the second day, Kinisu was arrested and brought to the station. It was then that I discovered his real name is Kinisu and not Kipande as I had known him,” he told the court.
The police said that Kinisu had murdered Jacqueline Ngina Kitheka at her home in the Marina area in Mtwapa between May 3 and 6 2022. He had then concealed her body in a wardrobe before taking off with her valuables including her mobile phones. The body was discovered three days later.
Kinisu is a hard core criminal who was previously charged with murder. He was in 2018 sentenced to death for violently robbing and killing Mombasa-based model Janet Adhiambo Asuna at her Kizingo residence.
A year later, he was acquitted by the High Court in 2019 on appeal after serving one-year imprisonment. This was despite evidence confirming he had withdrawn Sh.26, 600 from the deceased’s M-Pesa account in three outlets days after she was murdered.
