A woman identified as Violet Kemunto is believed to have been staying with one of the Dusit D2 attacker identified as Ali Salim Gichunge Police alias Farouk, in Guango Estate – Ruaka, Kiambu County.
Ms Kemunto Omwoyo was arrested on Tuesday night by Anti-Terror Police Unit offices as the rescue operation went on at the Dusit Complex.
She was known by her neighbours who assumed that the two were a couple, since they moved in to the apartment together in March 2018.
According to the neighbours she was a laid back woman who was always in a hijab and accompanied Salim to the shops.
A butcher Chege Kariuki described the couple as meat-lovers who never went a day without buying from him.
In his statement he said, “We only interacted with him as a customer. He was always with a light skinned girl.”
Chege further added saying his car was an attention seeker as you could hear it from a far coming due to the Turbo.
The day before the attack Ms Kemunto had put her household up for sale on Facebook , purporting that they were moving out of Nairobi.
Her Whatsapp profile picture was also cryptic, an image of a woman’s face covered with a black hijab and a red and black bloodied bandanna.