Man arrested after killing brother with a jembe

Crime Scene. [Courtesy]

Police in Naivasha have arrested a 28-year-old man who brutally murdered his younger brother using a jembe before going into hiding a week ago.

The suspect was arrested in Maella village, a few kilometers from the scene of the crime, as he sought employment in one of the farms as a casual laborer.

During the incident in Ndabibi area, the suspect attacked his 24-year-old brother using a jembe after a fallout over the ownership of a flash disk that had music.

The two were first involved in an argument that degenerated into physical fighting before the suspect snatched a jembe and hit the accused on the head killing him on the spot.

According to Naivasha DCIO Isaac Kiama, the suspect had been in hiding for the last one week before investigating officers tracked him using his mobile phone.

He said that the suspect would be arraigned in court charged with murder once investigations into the incident were fully complete.

“After a week of searching we have managed to arrest the suspect who will be charged with murder and we have recorded statements from various witnesses,” he said.

And in Magumu, Kinangop residents woke up to a rude shock to find the body of an unidentified man dumped in one of the community dams.

The body that was partially naked did not have any identification documents and it’s suspected that he was murdered elsewhere and dumped in the day.

A community elder Samson Ngari said that the man did not hail from the area adding that no case of missing person had been reported in the village.

“We suspect that the man was killed elsewhere before the body was dumped in the dam but police have collected the body and taken it to Naivasha mortuary,” he said.

He decried rising cases of murders and livestock theft in the area adding that area residents were living in fear as the numbers continued to rise.