A non-governmental Organisation’s plans to save Journalist Jacque Maribe have just backfired after her appearance in court alongside her fiance Joseph Irungu alias Jowie.
High Court judge James Wakiaga on Wednesday dismissed a Non-Governmental Organisation known as Empowerment Through Media, that had filed an affidavit poking holes in Maribe’s probe, saying proper procedure was not followed..
The NGO through its chirman Chairperson, Josiah Murigu had submitted an affidavit to the High Court. In the affidavit, Mr. Murigu raised questions as to why the prosecution has chosen to proceed with the case without taking statements from people who spent time with TV journalist Jacque Maribe on the night Monica was murdered in her Kilimani apartment.
Murigu had also argued that the two murder suspects, Jacque Maribe and her fiance, Jowie Irungu are entitled to bail claiming that denying them bail is ‘old fashioned.’
“The Director of Criminal Investigations has exhibited desperation in the quest for incriminating evidence and has been more or less running like a headless chicken to the extent of planting spies at the Gigiri police station where the 2nd accused person (Maribe) had been held for close to two weeks,” reads the affidavit.
Mr. Murigu in his statement said that his organization has contracted private investigators to probe the case.
Maribe had also filed an affidavit seeking her release on bail.
Maribe in her affidavit distanced herself from her fiance claiming that she was just an innocent lover and that the prosecution has nothing implicating her directly or indirectly with the murder. She added that, prosecution had no witness accounts or forensic material that would link her to the murder of the late Monica, a person she insisted she had no knowledge of.
However, Maribe and her fiance Jowie took plea afresh in order to include other suspects that were not before court in the ongoing murder case.
Citizen TV journalist Jacque Maribe and her fiancé Joseph Irungu take plea afresh to include other suspects not before court in the Monica Kimani murder case.
— Muhia wa Maina. (@muhiasmaina) October 24, 2018