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Onesmus Mutinda
Mutinda, a land surveyor in Njiru and Ruai, was killed a month earlier before Achok was fell. He was targeted on September 27, along the Northern by-pass and shot five times in the head in a drive-on attack. Both men were killed on Saturdays at around 11 am.
Police recorded statements from four people and linked Mutinda's death to land deals gone sour. He was involved in a controversial 1,600-acre parcel land in Ruai pitting a private developer and people claiming to be squatters.
Several copies of land-related documents were found in his car. He was heading to Ruaka from Ruai before being ambushed near Windsor Hotel. His was pushed into a ditch by a speeding car whose occupants opened fire killing the surveyor. The brutal murder was soon forgotten.
Simon Mwangi
Mwangi, a burly land dealer-cum-politician nicknamed Kamahuha, was executed by four men who had trailed him up to Dagoretti Corner.
He was cornered at on May 5, 2009 at around 11 pm while heading to his Karen home after leaving his Harmony Bar in Kariobangi South.
A car whose number plates were covered deflated the rear tyres of the land dealer's car before he was shot when he stepped out to check what had happened.
The killers then drove off without stealing anything. "It seems the gang's aim was to kill him because they drove off without stealing anything," said then Lang'ata OCPD Patrick Mangoli who has since passed on.
An influential KANU politician in the area, Mwangi used his connections to settle people on idle land in Embakasi, especially in Dandora, Kariobangi, Umoja, Tarssia, Embakasi Village and Imara.
John kaibere
A land dealer popularly known as 'patron', Kaibere a KANU delegate had managed to galvanized hundreds of youth on his side taking over idle land whose leases had expired or whose real owners were unknown. At the height of the Mungiki crackdown, he was soon killed under brutal circumstances.
The 57-year-old was assassinated alongside his friend Samwel Maina alias Mukurino. Their bodies and those of five people were found dumped in Athi River, almost two weeks after Kaibere and Maina disappeared on August 16, 2007.
According to The Cry of Blood, report by Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) released in September 2008, Kaibere and his friend were arrested by an anti-Mungiki squad that initially extorted from them Sh 285,000 before being executed after a brief release from police custody.
"When they paid up, they were driven to a place in Jerusalem estate where they met an officer in a police land cruiser who was said to be the head of the anti-Mungiki squad. The head of the squad told them that he had released them but ordered them to immediately leave Nairobi and that they should not go anywhere in Central province. He told them he would kill them if they were spotted anywhere," states the KNCHR report.
The killing of the old-man scared his son, Alfred Maina, who went into exile in Switzerland where he is an asylum seeker. "He is not a citizen in Switzerland and back home, those who killed his father might not want to see him walking alive," says a close relative.
Stephen Mutothori
On April 1, 2005, Mutothori the former Nyeri mayor was murdered as his son, Mugo watched. His family immediately linked the killing to a land dispute in Embakasi.
At the time of his death, he was the chairman of the Kiambu Dandora Farmers, a land buying and selling company, which was involved in a dispute with squatters at the 800 acre parcel of idle land in Kariobangi South.
He had spent his day running errands in the city before retreating to his Green Bask Annex Bar in Ayany market. He had a drink while chatting with his son, and at around 7.30 pm walked out to his car.
Before he could start the engine, two young men brandishing pistols appeared and ordered him to open the driver's door. The attackers dragged in out demanding money. The politician surrender, raising up his hands – the gunmen did not spare him. One of them shot him twice at point blank.
The assailants boarded a matatu commandeering it before alighting after a short distance before vanishing on foot. His wife, Agnes said her husband had been receiving threats on his mobile phone.
Two weeks before his killing, Mutothori had reported the death threats at Buru Buru Police Station. On the fateful day of the killing, the politician had been warned to keep off the affairs of the land.
