Police have revealed that Citizen TV news anchor Jacque Maribe’s neighbour Brian Kassaine had a habit of giving his gun to her boyfriend Joe Irungu.
According to the Daily Nation, police investigations showed that the gun Jowie used to shoot himself was Kassaine’s and he used to lend it to him.
“Police said investigations show that the gun used in the shooting belonged to Kassaine, and that he had a habit of giving his fire arm to Mr. Irungu,” said part of the report.
Mr. Kassaine mentioned that after the attempted suicide, Joe Irungu woke him up to go and collect the gun at the TV journalist’s house.
His words according to the police corroborated Jacque Maribe’s statement when she was interrogated by DCI detectives.
The revelation by police comes a day after Ms. Maribe and her neighbour Brian Kassaine were detained for 10 more days as detectives conclude investigations into the brutal murder of Monica Kimani. Maribe’s fiancée Joe Irungu was arrested as the primary suspect.
They were both charged at the Kiambu Court at different times.
Jacque Maribe is currently detained at Gigiri Police station while Mr. Kassaine was taken to Lang’ata Police Station on the Court’s orders.
Monica Kimani once dated Joe Irungu. This is according to the deceased’s cousin who refused to be named owing to the fact that the matter is still an active investigation.
The cousin revealed to The Standard, that Monica ditched Jowi, due to his promiscuous behavior. Irungu is currently the main suspect over the heinous murder of the 28 year old woman.
“It wasn’t a secret the Monica and Jowie were moving out and we don’t know what really transpired that led to the cruel death of our lovely cousin,” he said.
The family also believe that the killer took away a lot of money from the deceased.
“Some of her close friends have conferred with us that Monica had some good money which she intended to use during her tour in Dubai,” “We suspect that the killers were after this cash, we hope and pray that the real truth shall come out and justice will be done,” he said.
The story is collaborated by another story on Kahawa Tungu which revealed that Joe Irungu murdered Monica and got away with a lot of money.
Police have not revealed, whether they are following the money trail in the investigations. According to Kahawa Tungu, Monica was involved in money laundering business with top South Sudanese government officials and therefore had access to lots of cash.
It is believed that Jowi, who is jobless got wind of Monica’s money and wanted all of it for himself. Money could have therefore been the motive of the killing.
Monica was laid to rest at her family’s farm in Chemichemi village in Gilgil on Friday.
Detectives are still detaining Citizen TV journalist Jacque Maribe over the murder of businesswoman Monica Kimani.
Maribe was arrested on Saturday after investigators recovered some documents, among them a wallet and a handbag believed to belong to Monica at Jacque’s house in Royal Park, Lang’ata.
More people among them some journalists close to Maribe will be summoned to record statements. “This followed some leads so far obtained from Maribe since Saturday,” a source said.
Detectives have also conducted another search at Maribe’s parents’ house in Buru Buru estate, where they further recovered more information to help in their investigations.
Maribe may face charges as an accessory in the gruesome murder of Monica a week ago.
She was arrested shortly after 7pm and taken to Gigiri police station.
Maribe had been summoned to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to record a statement for the third time.
Incidentally, it was Maribe who read the news announcing the murder of Monica during the lunchtime bulletin on Citizen TV on the material day. It is not clear whether she was aware that her boyfriend might have been involved in the murder.