Police piecing together evidence on student’s murder

By Moses Njagih and Adow Jubat

Police in Mbeere are trying to establish the motive behind the murder of a Kenyatta University student.

The fourth year student, Agatha Waithera Nduati, is suspected to have been accosted on her way home, murdered and her body dumped by the roadside.

The body was found at Kianamu village last Friday. Police suspect she was killed elsewhere.

She is suspected to have been coming from Kagumo Teachers Training College, in Nyeri, where she had gone to enquire about a course.

Family sources said Agatha had called her father on Thursday informing him she was on her way home.

Ms Jane Wahome, a senior police officer at Mbeere Police Division said Agatha’s handbag was found next to the body. Her body is lying at Siakago District Hospital mortuary.

Meanwhile, four Administration Police officers are being treated at Ijara District Hospital after a lorry rammed into their vehicle at Masalani division.

Ijara OCPD Remas Warui said the officers who were on patrol, suspected the lorry was smuggling some 300 bags of uncustomed sugar from the Somalia.

But when the officers stopped it, the lorry driver defied the order and rammed into the stationary police vehicle. Mr Warui said the owner of the confiscated sugar and the driver would appear before Hola magistrate’s court.