The owner of a Mercedes Benz suspected to have been involved in the dawn killing of Kabete MP George Muchai was yesterday questioned by the police regarding the fateful shooting. This was after the Mercedes Benz was captured by CCTV cameras close to the scene of shooting. The owner, who appeared at the Central police Station on Sunday said that he and his two friends had stopped briefly at the scene of crime on their way home.
They had arrived there a short while after the shooting had occurred and before the police arrived at the scene. They would most likely be the first persons captured by the CCTV cameras to have arrived at the scene first. They were driving home from club Tamasha, which is located in Hurlingham.
However, sources indicated that police detectives do not regard them as suspects, and are instead following leads on a Toyota Probox suspected to have been carrying the shooters. Strikingly, it was yesterday revealed that the CCTV footage handed over to police detectives by the Nairobi County was poor and unreliable. Subsequently, police are more relying on CCTV footage captured by installations on private buildings.
In one of the CCTV footage, the vehicle believed to have carried out the attack is seen driving from Kenyatta Avenue to Moi Avenue shortly after the shooting. In another CCTV footage captured by private cameras near the Globe Cinema roundabout, the vehicle is seen driving out of town.
Yesterday, the detectives visited the Galielo Lounge as they sought to question two women who were captured by the Galileo cameras sitting very close to the late MP George Muchai. They then spent hours at George Muchai’s Kamulu home questioning as they tried to re-correct his last engagements.
