The Gruesome murder of Lawyer Robert Chesang’ has surely shocked the nation due to the manner in which it was carried out.
Robert Chesang met his untimely death at his Moke Gardens home in Lukenya, Machakos county, on Sunday. The killers first kidnapped two guards at the main gate of the estate.
The police have now revealed that the lawyer was involved in many land transactions and that this is one of the leads they are pursuing since they believe it could be the source of the his murder.
Machakos county DCIO boss George Kisaka and Athi River police boss Sharma Wario said that the two seemed to have been hired to kill.
“The murder happened between 11.30am and 12.30pm. They held a guard hostage in the estate demanding he leads them to Chesang’s house,” Wario said yesterday.
“When they arrived at his compound, one knocked the door. Chesang’ peeped through the window curtains, then one of the gunmen shot him three times in the chest.”
The lawyer lived alone. His wife, a magistrate, works in Nyeri. She lives with their two children. The police found his body in a pool of blood in the living room, with documents scattered on a couch, a laptop, books and booklets strewn everywhere.
Police had to use a slender man from the estate to open the door which had been locked from inside. They also recovered seven spent cartridges — two in the house and five outside the window.
The attackers escaped without stealing anything, leaving the guard tied up with a rope in a corner of the compound.
Wario said they had yet to establish the motive of the murder, but had not ruled out a business deal. Nobody has since been arrested with connection to the murder but the police are pursuing any available lead to help them unravel the mystery behind Chesang’s brutal murder.
Chesang’s body is currently at Shalom Hospital mortuary in Athi River.