Jacque Maribe was again sent to remand for another seven days by the new judge James Wakiaga and his fiance Jowie Irungu. Maribe is alleged to have written an affidavit distancing herself from the murder case.
Maribe filed an affidavit claiming she is a single mother of a child aged four who she claims solely depends on her for social and financial upkeep. Maribe also added that she is a well known TV journalist and that she can easily be spotted anywhere.
Jacque Maribe has revealed through a sworn affidavit that lead investigator Chief Inspector Maxwell Otieno planted a spy in her cell at Gigiri Police Station to investigate her.
In the affidavit, Maribe narrates how a Mr Kennedy Kenneth Omondi (K.K Omondi) got into her female cell where no male detainees were allowed.
“I suspect K.K. Omondi was planted by C. Insp. M. Otieno…to investigate and extract information. He probably thought I had something I was holding back whilst in fact I had disclosed everything,” she said.
A lot of things about K.K Omondi weren’t right, she says.
She states that he was the only male detainee allowed free movement and interaction with female detainees.
More so, Maribe claimed that K.K Omondi had his phone, had both shoes on and also had packed food from Java Restaurant, all of which were unlawful.
She also says that he even went ahead offering his food to her but she turned down the offer.
“I was advised by other detainees and security personnel to be careful with him in view of his interest in my situation,” she said.
K.K Omondi revealed that he lives in Kilimani, a few meters from Kibera and that he knows where Maribe lives.
The news anchor’s legal team have crafted the affidavit to disassociate their client with Jowie who is the 1st accused in the murder case of Monica Kimani.
The affidavit refers to Maribe and Jowie’s romantic affair in the past tense.
“Irungu was my fiancé as at then and in the circumstances, I definitely communicated with him. It is most unfair to use the communication between me and him in the given circumstances of our then existing relationship as a reason to deny me bail,” part of the affidavit reads.
The legal document is written in a language to show that there is no more relationship or contact between the two ‘ex-lovers’.
Jacque’s legal team is led by the soft-spoken Katwa Kigen and has poked holes into the prosecution’s investigations in an effort to ensure the journalist does not face the hangman in the murder case.
The team says their client was not at home when Jowie is said to have burnt some clothes and that they were also not burnt within her compound.
On her car being traced to Monica’s home on the night of the murder, Maribe says she could not control her then lover on where he would go with the car.