Five Nigerian nationals are being held by detectives for a further fourteen days on suspicion of killing a middle-aged businessman, according to a Kibera magistrate’s court ruling.
Charles Otieno is believed to have been slain by the following five people: Ibrahim Adegbiyega Ojora, Taheed Anu Bankale, Onoshagware Daniel Oghenewede, Badmas Rilman Olankewaji, and Ibrahim Bankole Imole.
The five accused were reportedly residing in a building where Otieno was pushed off the seventh floor.
Following a miscellaneous application that police officer Luke Ndirangu from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations filed in court, they were placed under arrest.
Ndirangu requested 21 days from the court, but instead he was given an additional 14 days to finish the aforementioned investigations.
He informed the court that the respondents lived in the same apartment and knew the deceased for a long time.
Ndirangu testified in court that the dead was discovered lifeless on the ground by the responding officers, who had hurried to the site.
His body was brought to the Coptic Morgue, where a postmortem examination has not yet taken place.
However, the respondent argued the court that those 21 days were too much for their detention through their lawyer, Eric Anyega.
Anyega said the court that since their alleged crime was committed in Nairobi, there were no logistical challenges to the detectives’ ability to conduct their investigations.
He begged the court to shorten his client’s detention period, claiming that his client was innocent in the aforementioned murder case and willing to assist with the investigation.
The suspect will be held for a period of 14 days, as directed by the magistrate.
