THE STANDARD By
Kamore Maina |
January 10th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Lawrence Simon Warunge was arrested together with his 23-year-old girlfriend to help police unravel the January 5 murder of Nicholas Njoroge, his wife Ann, two children and a construction worker.
Warunge, a third year IT student at the Mt Kenya University was arrested at a relative’s house at Wangige on Friday night by officers from the Karuri Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
The girlfriend, only identified as Muthoni and who sells eggs at Biafra in Thika Town, was arrested at her rented house in Kijabe Town.
The two are being locked up at Muthaiga Police Station.
THE STANDARD By
Kamore Maina |
January 8th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Kiambu County Commissioner Wilson Wanyanga addresses the press at the home of the late Nicholas Njoroge in Karura village, Kiambu, yesterday. [David Njaaga, Standard]
A land transaction that America-based nurse Nicholas Njoroge Warunge was undertaking before his brutal murder is the focus of investigations.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) will also revisit a 2018 incident where Njoroge’s brother was shot and injured by gunmen.
The police want to establish if there is any link to the past attack and the murder of the 55-year-old nurse and his family at their home in Karura, Kiambu County, on Tuesday night.
The three had recently studied the prevalence of birth defects in Kiambu County for a five-year period from 2014 to 2018.
Their report appears this month (December) in the Pan African Medical Journal and tells of an unfolding “silent epidemic.”
The team had analysed records of all children born with physical abnormalities in 13 sub-country hospitals in Kiambu.
The sampled sub-county hospitals included Kihara, Karuri, Wangige, Nyathuna, Lari-Rukuma, Ruiru, Tigoni, Lussigetti, Kigumo and Igegania plus the three county referral hospitals of Kiambu, Thika and Gatundu.
Overall, the study found a year-to-year increase of children being born with physical abnormalities in the county.
“There was a steady annual increase in the prevalence estimates of various physical defects in children during the study period,” wrote the authors.
The three had recently studied the prevalence of birth defects in Kiambu County for a five-year period from 2014 to 2018.
Their report appears this month (December) in the Pan African Medical Journal and tells of an unfolding “silent epidemic.”
The team had analysed records of all children born with physical abnormalities in 13 sub-country hospitals in Kiambu.
The sampled sub-county hospitals included Kihara, Karuri, Wangige, Nyathuna, Lari-Rukuma, Ruiru, Tigoni, Lussigetti, Kigumo and Igegania plus the three county referral hospitals of Kiambu, Thika and Gatundu.
Overall, the study found a year-to-year increase of children being born with physical abnormalities in the county.
“There was a steady annual increase in the prevalence estimates of various physical defects in children during the study period,” wrote the authors.