The Probe into the gruesome murder of Lawyer Willie Kimani, his client and driver keep taking fresh twists everyday and by the look of things, it is almost certain to say that the truth behind the murder shall soon be revealed.
Tuesday was the turn of former police informer Peter Ngugi who was also a clothes hawker in Mlolongo.
Mr. Ngugi revealed that the reason he decided to sign the alleged confession which he has since denied as not being his was because police officers had promised to put him under witness protection.
He said police told him they were preparing a safe house for him. That was why he agreed to sign an alleged confession written in English, a language he did not understand since he is a Class Four dropout, he said.
“Your honour, just the other day the police officer was still telling me that they only have 20 per cent remaining on the project to make me a prosecution witness,” Ngugi said.
He was testifying in the trial within a trial ordered by Justice Jessie Lessit to determine whether his confession implicating four police officers in the murder should be admitted as evidence in the case.
The confession was in relation to his involvement in the murder of Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri.
The police officers charged alongside Ngugi are Fredrick Leliman, Leonard Maina, Stephen Chebulet and Sylvia Wanjiku.
Ngugi told Justice Lessit that he was picked up by officer Clement Mwangi and three others from his shop in Waithaka and they headed to the Flying Squad offices. They told him he would help them with a case.
The case resumes on March 6