Search for ex-NCBDA boss Muriuki's attackers ongoing
These combined photos show three of the five men who attacked ex-NCBDA boss Timothy Muriuki last month. The police are searching for them. PHOTO | COURTESY | NATIONAL POLICE SERVICE
What you need to know:
- Timothy Muriuki's attackers claimed he had been tarnishing the reputation of Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko.
The National Police Service (NPS) said it will not rest until the people who attacked a businessman in Nairobi 10 days ago are arrested.
Director of Corporate Communications Charles Owino said the NPS has every reason to believe that the people arrested on Tuesday participated in the attack of former Nairobi Central Business District Association Timothy Muriuki at Hotel Boulevard.
He spoke as Kenyans asked why not even one of those captured by the media assaulting Mr Muriuki and robbing him had been arrested.
“We have gone for the roots and we are now going for the branches. Police are doing their work,” Mr Owino said on Thursday, adding that the planners, participants and abettors of crimes are offenders under the Kenyan law.
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE
By 5pm Thursday, none of the five men on the posters released by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations with a Sh2.5 million bounty on their heads had been apprehended.
On Tuesday, East Africa Legislative Assembly member Simon Mbugua and three others were arrested in connection with the assault.
They were charged in a Milimani court with robbery with violence. They denied the charges and were each released on a Sh200,000 bond.
Mr Muriuki was attacked as he delivered a press statement about the state of Nairobi, where he focused on the poor roads, garbage collection and matatu menace.
The attackers claimed that he had been tarnishing the reputation of Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko.
