Citizen TV’s news anchor Jacque Maribe has been caught up in the Murder case of Monica Kimani who was found dead at her Kilimani apartment.
Ms.Maribe’s fiance has been linked as the main suspect in the murder and is currently been remanded for 10 days to allow further investigations.
However Maribe has been a trending character in the story for one, following her involvement with Jowie and speculations that she was with Jowie moments after the killing had occurred making her a key witness in the case.
According to police, Maribe’s car, a Toyota Allion was spotted at Luciane Apartments in Kilimani where Monica was found murdered , and according to neighbors revelation Jowi, was a frequent visitor at the apartment and was well known to them.
Police on Thursday dusted TV journalist Jacque Maribe’s car, Toyota Allion as they continue with investigations. According to police, Irungu was also driving the same car at about 1.30am on September 21, when he claimed to have been shot and wounded in the chest by a gunman who, Irungu said, escaped on a motorbike outside their house.
In his statement, Irungu told police that he had picked up Maribe from a club in Kilimani which is incidentally the same neighborhood where Monica was killed and drove her to her house in Royal Park Estate, Lang’ata where he was supposedly shot.
He further said that, after dropping Maribe, he drove back to the gate where he had noticed suspicious characters and on confrontation, they shot him on the left side of his chest before fleeing off.
He went back to alert Maribe on the incident and she drove him to Nairobi West Hospital. The script on the exact hospital has been changing.
Maribe and Irungu both recorded a statement at the Lang’ata police station where the police dismissed the shooting incident. It was at this point the cops started connecting the dots to the murder incident in Kilimani before arresting him at Maribe’s House.
Detectives later summoned and interviewed Maribe for a second day running after Irungu was charged.
A lot of inconsistencies have been marked by investigators in the initial testimonies given by the two when they reported the incident at Lang’ata Police station on the very night that Monica was killed. Police are determined to confirm if he indeed picked Maribe up from a Kilimani club and drove her home and on the shooting incident or if it was a lie, having given an affirmative testimony earlier perhaps to defend a spouse, it puts her in much more trouble.
According to unconfirmed reports from sources, Jacque Maribe may be charged for being an accessory to murder, which carries a life sentence.
Irungu had used Maribe’s car to the murder scene, he continues, “on conviction for murder, the sentence is only one, Death …. On conviction for Accessory After the Fact to Murder, the sentence is Life Imprisonment.”
One can only hope that Maribe didn’t help her spouse to create an alibi by corroborating the shooting which if determined, would risk her being charged with murder. Jowie’s life is a mystery as mysterious as ever.