Businessman Chris Obure and his bodyguard Robert Bodo look set to be charged in connection to the shooting and killing of 28-year-old businessman Kevin Omwenga. The duo will face murder charges.
On Tuesday, the Directorate of Public Prosecutions now claims that businessman Chris Obure was seen near the late Kevin Omwenga’s house on the day of the murder. In their response to Obure’s application to be made a State witness, the DPP said that there is enough evidence to charge the duo with murder.
Apparently, Obure was placed at the scene of crime adding that he was in the vicinity of Omwenga’s house on that night. Obure has also reportedly given contradicting statements about his whereabouts on the day of the murder.
Detectives have spent time with each of the suspects, during which Robert Bodo has already given a detailed explanation of what happened before the shooting occurred. In his recount, Bodo alleges that the shooting was accidental.
He said Omwenga was with Obure’s gun until late that night when he was handing it back to Bodo it went off accidentally. He denied any altercation with the deceased saying they were good friends.
Bodo is believed to have taken the firearm from the office of businessman Chris Obure which is situated at Sentieu Plaza just next to Galana suite; the crime scene, on Friday 6.30am and returned it minutes before midnight, after the shooting had occurred.
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According to the police report, Bodo claims to have handed the gun to Omwenga earlier in the evening before the duo left an entertainment joint along Argwings Kodhek Road to go to Ngara area of Nairobi where they picked Omwenga’s female companion seen in this CCTV footage. He claims Omwenga wanted the firearm to showoff to the female companion.
A report from Citizen further says that Bodo told the police that when it was time for him to go home that night, he pulled Omwenga from the sitting room where a party was ongoing, to his bedroom intending to take back the gun, it is then that it went off discharging a round through the left side of his chest.
According to detectives, however, the trajectory of the bullet head that is suspected to have pierced through Omwenga’s heart and hit the wall before ricocheting to his bed rules out the possibility of an accident.