DCI arrests three suspects in murder of Kilifi IEBC official

IEBC official Aisha Akinyi Abubakar was killed by armed robbers who attacked her on January 5, 2025.

Detectives have arrested three suspects linked to the murder of Aisha Abubakar, an Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) official from Kilifi County, who was killed on January 5.

The suspects identified as Isa Omari, Brian Shikuku Mudari, and Bryan Templer Oyare were apprehended by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) during coordinated operations across the coastal region.

Several items were recovered from the suspects, including one of the stolen phones belonging to Abubakar's son.

"The suspects were flushed out from their hideouts in separate, coordinated operations following a seven-day manhunt for the perpetrators of the 3 a.m. robbery," the DCI said on Monday evening.

Detectives also revealed that the attackers stole various valuables during the break-in, including two Samsung phones, an iPad, a 65-inch television, a sound system, and ATM cards whose PINs they had forcibly obtained.

Abubakar was fatally stabbed when the armed robbers broke into her home in Utange, Mombasa County.

Despite efforts to save her at Premier Hospital in Nyali, she was pronounced dead on arrival.

Investigations into the murder are still ongoing.