Slain IEBC official phone, Daniel Musyoka, leads to the arrest of four suspects in connection with the murder.
Investigations into the death of Mr Daniel Mbolu Musyoka, the slain Embakasi East Returning Officer whose body was found dumped at Kilombero Forest in Oloitoktok on August 15, has taken a turn after police tracked down his phone to four suspects.
The four individuals were on Wednesday, October 19, arrested in connection with the murder.
Musyoka, prior to his demise, served as the Embakasi East Constituency Returning Officer during the August General Election.
Reports indicated that the police tracked down the suspects using Slain IEBC official phone to Kisii, where it had been sold to a woman.
The authorities added that the mobile phone had been formatted before the sale.
A detective privy to the probe said the four were lured by sleuths before being nabbed in Nairobi.
“The four allegedly sold the gadget to a woman who has been using it since the IEBC official went missing. Detectives had been trying to trace the whereabouts of the gadget after they realised that it was in use.”
The four suspects were first lured to a central point by detectives after they arrested the woman who had been using the mobile phone for about a month.
It is then that the woman was implored to reach out to the person who sold it to her.
While tracing the phone’s change in hands since Mr Musyoka’s death, the detective said the first person who picked the phone reported collecting it somewhere within Umoja estate in Nairobi.
Police are still trying to establish details of how the phone ended up in use.
The four suspects spent Tuesday night in custody before they were arraigned at Makadara Law Courts on Wednesday morning.
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