A Nairobi court has detained a suspect accused of murdering a Greek citizen for 14 days, pending investigations.
Peter Waithaka, 33, appeared before Milimani court magistrate Bernard Ochoi who ordered his detention.
Peter Waithaka, believed to be the head of a gang behind the daylight armed robberies that have been reported in Kilimani and its environs, was arrested on Saturday evening at Makongeni in Nairobi’s east lands suburbs.
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In the October incident, the jailbird and two accomplices on a numberless motorbike accosted Alex Marcopaulo at the Menellik /Ngong road junction and violently took away a rucksack that he was carrying.
One of them then whipped out a pistol and shot Marcopaulo once on the right side of the chest before taking off on a motorbike.
Efforts by doctors at the Nairobi Women’s hospital to save the victim’s life were fruitless as he later succumbed to the gunshot injury.
In a separate incident on September 29, the armed thugs had accosted 4 Dutch tourists outside Silver Harbour apartment along Kindaruma road. They violently robbed them of their mobile phones, cash and jewellery before escaping towards Ngong road on a motorbike, whose plate numbers were concealed.
As they made their escape, the thugs fired two shots in the air to scare off members of the public who had responded to the distress call by the besieged tourists.
The Dutch tourists were waiting to board a tour van to Nairobi National Park when the thugs got stuck in the 8 am incident.
“Since then, detectives have been burning the midnight candle to unmask the identity of the miscreant gang and bring all of them to book,” said the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
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