NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 14 — Prominent Kiambu politician Gladys Chania has been arrested for allegedly planning the murder of her husband whose body was found in a thicket.
She is reported to have hired hitmen to kill her husband in the couple’s bedroom before she went to the nearby police station to report that her man, George Mwangi, a Rwanda-based businessman who was home on holiday, had gone missing.
Chania unsuccessfully vied for the Kiambu Woman Representative position in the August 9 election.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the man’s body was dumped kilometres away from their home.
It was discovered on October 12 by casual labourers working in tea plantations located in Kamunyaka.
“It was wrapped in a polythene bag and covered under a heap of cartons,” the DCI said.
The discovery of the body is what sparked an enhanced investigation by DCI detectives who visited the couple’s home in Mang’u area and arrested the woman and three other suspects including her workers.
The agency said that its detectives based at the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau and the Homicide Department had recovered some of the murder weapons used to kill the victim hidden in the master bedroom, the primary scene of the murder.
Blood-soaked bed sheets, curtains and clothes hidden in a locked room adjacent to the master bedroom have also been recovered.
DCI forensic experts said they also detected blood splatter patterns on the bedroom walls, wardrobe and along the stairway indicating that the victim was killed in the house before his body was dumped kilometres away.
Detectives established the 58-year-old husband and father of three who had returned home on September 13 from Rwanda’s Capital Kigali, had been killed in cold blood hours before his return flight and his body dumped in Kiambu’s Kieni forest.
Preliminary findings pointed to a love affair as the possible motive for the principle suspect, the contractor’s wife.
“As detectives investigating the murder most foul have gathered, George Mwangi of Double M International based in Kigali, Rwanda, was killed following a love affair involving him and his mistress identified as Lucy Muthoni, a secretary at a local school,” DCI said Friday.
