A
14-year-old juvenile was arrested by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations
(DCI) in connection to the gruesome murder of Pamoja FM journalist Mohammed
Hassan Marjan.
Marjan was
fatally stabbed by a gang of six on May 4, in Kibra, Makina area, while heading
home from work.
According
to DCI, the 14-year-old was arrested after he was positively identified in the
analysis of CCTV footages.
Detectives
say Marjan was violently robbed before the suspects stabbed him on the chest,
killing him instantly.
“In a group
of four others, the suspect accosted the deceased who was heading to his place
after duty at the said radio station, violently robbed him in which process
they stabbed him on the left side of the chest killing him instantly,” said the
DCI.
The 4 am
incident enraged members of the public who lynched one of the suspects as they
hunted down the rest.
“Once the
body was taken away to the mortuary, a group of young men gathered and went out
looking for a suspected killer. They then took him to the scene of the crime
and murdered him there and then,” said the Kibra sub-county deputy commissioner
Gideon Ombogi.
Last week,
a 19-year-old man was arrested in connection to the murder after detectives
from Kilimani retrieved CCTV footage.
The
suspect, Juma Hussein Mohammed, was arraigned before a Milimani court where
police were allowed to hold him for nine more days as they continue with
investigations.
Detectives
are still pursuing the other suspects and a woman who is believed to have aided
them, as the 14-year-old juvenile awaits arraignment.