Faith Wairimu at Milimani Law
Courts where she admitted hiring hitmen
to kill her husband John Muthee at Zimmerman
Estate in Nairobi.
Nairobi, Kenya: A narration of a chilling plot by a woman
who hired hitmen
to kill her husband of 15 years Wednesday stunned a Nairobi court.
Investigating officers told the court how Faith
Wairimu Maina paid the ‘
hitmen’ a down payment of Sh40,000 and demanded for the bloodstained
clothes of her husband to confirm his death before completing the Sh160,000
balance.
It also emerged in court that this was the second time that the woman, who
runs a kiosk in Nairobi’s Zimmerman
area, was attempting to have her husband, John Muthee, killed after an earlier
mission flopped. The would-be assassins developed cold feet despite having
parted with Sh40,000.
Muthee is a businessman who sells macadamia. Wairimu pleaded guilty to
hatching the plot to kill the father of her two children and paying the money
when she was arraigned before Principal Magistrate Patrick
Ndegwa.
According to prosecutor Karuri Thuku, the accused schemed to eliminate
Muthee for allegedly having an extra-marital affair with a woman named Njeri
Wambaa.
The court heard that in an attempt to achieve her plan, she roped in one
Mama Kevo whose duty was to scout for and hire a hit squad whose sole duty was
to murder Muthee.
After being assigned her duty, Mama Kevo began her search and approached one
Wilson Mwangi to link her up with individuals who could execute the job.
However, unbeknown to Mama Kevo, her pointman (Mwangi) was a police informer.
Mwangi reported the matter to the officer in-charge of Flying Squad as soon
as he parted ways with the woman. Three officers, namely Peter Nderitu, Joseph
Lagat and Moses Gitwamba, were assigned to investigate the allegation and took
over the role of the hitmen
by getting in touch with Wairimu.
The magistrate was told that the police informer told the accused through
Mama Kevo that he had managed to get the assassins who would do the job
perfectly. The three ‘assassins’ agreed they be introduced to the accused at
her food kiosk in Zimmerman
the following day where she disclosed that she had tried to kill her husband
earlier but failed.
To ensure that her mission did not flop a second time, she demanded to know
if the ‘
hitmen’ were armed and one of them showed her his official pistol.
After negotiating and agreeing on Monday (June 17) on how the business would
be conducted, she paid them Sh40,000 through the mobile money transfer system,
Mpesa, and promised to pay the balance of Sh160,000 after they accomplished the
mission.
Husband’s number
She sent an SMS to the officers giving her husband’s mobile phone number so
that they could lure him out of the house and accomplish the job. On the
material day, the officers called Muthee as the accused had instructed, posing
as customers for macadamia but he did not leave the house.
On Tuesday this week in the morning the accused called the ‘
hitmen’ and informed them that she was in the company of her husband near
Equity Bank in Zimmerman.
They instead went with Muthee to Kasarani Police Station where what was being
planned behind his back was exposed when the officers spoke with his wife on
telephone. An officer took the jacket Muthee was wearing, soaked it in blood in
a nearby butchery and delivered it to the accused where she paid the balance
before being apprehended.
In mitigation, Wairimu said she was the sole provider of her family and was
in an abusive marriage. She sought the court’s forgiveness.The ruling will be
on June 28.
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