Home of ex-spy torched amid probe of Kavaini woman's death

The Kavaini location chief Mr Timothy Muthui said no one was hurt during the incident since the former senior detective and his wife were being interrogated by the DCI sleuths in Mwingi West in connection with the Saturday night murder of a neighbour. "The occupants of the home, a man and a wife, were being held by DCI sleuths. They were therefore not around when their house was torched," said the Kavaini chief.

The arrest of the couple happened on Sunday after a woman who is their neighbor was killed and her body dumped besides the Thika-Garissa highway on Saturday night.

Chief Muthui said arsonists destroyed property worth millions of shillings and they took off soon after committing the alleged crime.

However, the chief who did not give further details of the perpetrators hinted that unknown residents could have plotted to avenge the murder of one of their own allegedly by the arrested couple.

A lifeless body of a woman was found by locals at Kavaini trading centre on Sunday leading to demonstrations over the heinous killing.

Traffic was disrupted along the busy Thika-Garissa highway with antiriot police firing teargas canisters to disperse the protesters. They also fired in the air to clear the road for normalcy to return. On their part, Kavaini residents told the press that the police took too long to collect the body of the woman killed. They were also angry that no arrests were made over the killings.

By the time of filing this report, the suspects were still being held by DCI detectives as investigations go on.