Television journalist Jacque Maribe has been arrested in connection with Monica Nyawira Kimani’s murder. The TV star who had earlier told the police she did not know Kimani, adding that she had even read the news of her death the night it happened is currently being held at Gigiri Police Station in Nairobi.
Her arrest came after hours of interrogation by Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives at the DCI headquarters along Kiambu Road.
Maribe presented herself to police on Thursday in an attempt to clear her name in the ongoing probe into the murder of Monicah Kimani. Maribe, who was accompanied by her parents and lawyer Katwa Kigen, was interrogated for almost one hour at the Kilimani DCI offices before she was referred to the DCI headquarters on Kiambu Road.
Maribe had told police she was in shock and had sought refuge at her parents’ house after learning that her fiancé, Joseph Kuria Irungu, was being linked to the September 19 murder of Kimani. Kimani’s body was found in a bathtub in her Kilimani apartment, with her throat slit. Irungu the man accused of killing Ms Kimani was detained on Wednesday for 10 days to allow police conduct further investigations into the gruesome murder.