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Police arrest TV host’s fiancé as murder probe mystery deepens

Joseph Irungu, the boyfriend to Citizen TV journalist Jacky Maribe in this file picture released by police. [Photo: Courtesy]

The mystery surrounding the killing of 28-year-old interior designer has deepened, with the arrest of a man who had publicly proposed to a TV News anchor.

Joseph Kuria Irungu, who asked for Citizen TV host Jackie Maribe’s hand in marriage on June 30, was yesterday positively identified by witnesses at a police parade as the last man seen walking out of Monica Nyawira Kimani’s apartment on September 19.

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