Empowering Africa Through Media NGO Chairperson, Josiah Murigu has submitted an affidavit to the High Court. In the affidavit, Mr. Murigu has 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 argues 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
Miss Maribe and Mr. Irungu are still in remand after they pleaded not guilty to the murder charges against Monica Kimani. The court is set to hear a bail application from Maribe and Jowie next Wednesday, 24th October 2018.
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.
“I had no motive to kill the deceased. I didn’t participate directly or indirectly in it. No motive is alleged with regard to me,” said Maribe.
Miss Kimani, met her untimely death when she was found dead in her apartment at Lamuria Gardens on Kitale Lane, off Denis Pritt Road in Nairobi’s Kilimani area. Her body was found in a bathtub, her throat slit from ear to ear, mouth taped and her hands and legs tied.