AfricaPress-Kenya: A journalist and National Lands Commission official who was found dead on Monday, March 15, was supposed to appear for cross-examination at the Milimani law courts.
Jennifer Itumbi Wambua was one of the witnesses in a case involving the alleged embezzlement of Ksh122 million from the Government Advertising Agency (GAA) implicating top government officials including former PS Sammy Itemere and Lugari MP Ayub Savula.
Makueni MP Daniel Maanzo who doubled up as Wambua’s lawyer indicated that she was supposed to visit him on Saturday to prepare for her testimony.
Jennifer Itumbi Wambua who went missing on Friday, March 12 2021.
“She was also my relative and so she had promised to share her problems with me. However, that did not happen because she was kidnapped on Friday,” Maanzo told the Nation.
On the said Friday, Wambua was dropped at her workplace by her husband Joseph Komu.
Komu, a Ministry of Agriculture official, said he parked the car in a yard that was convenient for the couple.
“I picked the car at around 11 am and went to the garage where I discovered my wife’s handbag and her phone. After the car was fixed, I drove to her office to drop the items but was shocked when her colleagues told me she had not been seen that day,” he stated.
Kilimani boss Fatuma Hadi, on Monday, March 15, indicated that her body was found at Ngong Forest on Saturday, March 13.
Detectives suspect that she might have been strangled due to the bruises on her neck. She also had bruises on her legs and arms.
In addition, they suspect that she could have been tortured and killed elsewhere before her body was dumped in the forest.
