How Wangui Rose From Boiling Eggs to Living in a High-End Gated Community

About a week before Ms Mungai got involved in actions that would leave her as the primary suspect in the murder of her lover’s wife, it is reported that Ms Judy Wangui Mungai took her son to live with his ailing grandmother at Gikure Village in Gatundu South, Kiambu County.

The seven-year old boy was registered in a local private school. Her family did not make much of the action as she often visited home to take care of her mother with basic upkeep items and medication.

All that her mother knew was that her daughter was “God-fearing” and that she wouldn’t be charged with anything to do with murder.

“My daughter is incapable of hurting anyone as she was brought up in a Christian way,” Ms Wairimu struggled to explain.

She added that her daughter had promised to take her from their rural home to a better place where she can take good care of her.

Wangui’s mother says she attended Gikure Primary School but did not go beyond Standard Eight. That contradicts earlier reports from her friends that she dropped out of an IT-related university course in the second year.

Until two years ago, Ms Mungai lived an ordinary life eking out a living by hawking boiled eggs, sausages and tea at a car wash in Thindigua along Kiambu Road.

She also had a side-hustle to supplement her earnings; she cleaned muddy shoes for the car wash customers, charging about Sh200 per pair. Business boomed and she soon opened a wines and spirits shop targeting the motorists.

“She was like any ordinary woman you would find in the streets trying to eke out a living,” said a businessman who used to be her customer.

Two weeks ago, Ms Mungai was arrrested in relation with Ms Kamangara’s murder at Four Ways Junction Estate along Kiambu Road where she lived.

Mr Kori and car-hire businessman Michael Githae Mathenge are also in custody. They are expected to be charged with murder today except for Mr Karue whose involvement detectives are yet to determine.

Ms Mungai, some of her clients say, was a hawker before she started to make deliveries in a white Toyota Allion.

“I met her at an entertainment joint in Ruaka where she had gone to deliver shirts and trousers to a client. In our brief chat, she told me how she operated and that she lived at Thindigua,” said a woman who then also ran a similar business.

Those who know her say it is while operating at the car wash that Ms Mungai met Mr Kori, a businessman who turned her fortunes around.

She moved from Thindigua Estate where a two-bedroom apartment goes for between Sh18,000 to Sh30,000 in monthly rent and moved to the high-end gated community about three kilometres away.

Ms Mungai lived in a two-bedroom apartment at Daisy Court 4 that is approximately Sh 60,000 per month. A place, where she is suspected to have lured Ms Kamangara to her death.

On her Facebook account under the handle Danyque Gabriel, she indicated that she was born on December 15, 1991, but shared very little about her background.

She sometimes shared her photos with Mr Karue on Facebook, including of them on exotic tours in Malaysia and Singapore last year. However, when they shared the dock in Kiambu two weeks ago, Ms Mungai and Mr Kori seemed like strangers.

Currently, Ms Mungai and Mr Kori are being held at Muthaiga Police Station for the next nine working days.

 

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