Detectives in Kenya have arrested two Nigerians, William Opia and Johnbull Asbor, for allegedly killing and dismembering Rita Waeni, a 20-year-old scholar on the Jomo Kenyatta College of Agriculture and Expertise, in an condo.
Kenya's The Nation Media Group stated on its web site that the invention of Waeni's head, coated in a bag and shrouded in a purple shirt, has despatched shockwaves via the neighborhood and intensified the seek for her killers.
The suspects have been reportedly residing illegally in Kenya.
Opia's passport is claimed to have expired, whereas Asbor claimed he misplaced his journey paperwork two years in the past.
In accordance with the newspaper, DCI investigators found the duo hiding in an condo in Ndenderu, Kiambu County, not removed from the place Waeni's head was later discovered.
DCI's Felony Analysis and Intelligence Bureau tracked the suspects utilizing clues and proof collected from the crime scene in Kasarani.
Officer Benjamin Wangila of the DCI workplace in Kasarani instructed a court docket in Makadara that the suspects' proximity to the invention of physique elements strengthened the case towards them.
Police introduced that an axe, a butcher knife, a Kenyan id card (of an unknown particular person), six cellphones, three laptops, ten SIM playing cards and numerous different gadgets have been recovered from the suspects' hideout.
“The investigation workforce is attempting to acquire name information for all SIM playing cards and cell phone numbers recovered from the respondents to find out whether or not they have been concerned within the homicide,” the newspaper quoted officer Benjamin Wangila as saying in an affidavit filed in court docket .
Authorities plan to investigate name information from the seized gadgets to find out the suspects' connection to the homicide.
Wangila stated in a court docket assertion that getting blood samples for DNA evaluation and comparability with crime scene samples is essential.
Considerations have been raised that the suspects could be flight dangers as a consequence of their lack of authorized residency and everlasting tackle, main Senior Chief Justice of the Peace Agnes Mwangi of the Makadara Regulation Courts to situation an eight-day detention order on the Kasarani Police Station.
The affidavit confirmed that Opia bought the hatchet on-line in self-defense.
The investigation into Waeni's homicide is ongoing and authorities try to grasp the motive and reconstruct the occasions that led to her tragic loss of life.
Waeni's household struggled to establish her head on the metropolis mortuary on Monday, regardless of DCI confirming on Sunday that it had been recovered from a Kiambu dam.
Data confirmed the top belonged to an unknown feminine grownup, inflicting additional confusion and ache for the grieving household. Moreover, Waeni's lacking telephone was discovered on the crime scene.
