Main Suspect in Murder of 3 Men in Kilifi Arrested

The main suspect in the murder of three men in Junju B Village in Kilifi has been arrested.

Robert Mganga is believed to be behind the killing of the three individuals whose car was also torched on July 7, 2021.

According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Mganga who went into hiding immediately after the incident was flushed out of his hideout at Ambuja Court, in Tassia’s Fedha Estate.

“In a sting operation mounted by Special Service Unit (SSU) detectives, Mganga was finally cornered yesterday at around 10:30am. He had previously escaped a police dragnet prompting the DCI to unleash the elite Special Service Unit for his manhunt,” said DCI.

[Robert Mganga main suspect in the murder of three men in Kilifi.]

The sleuths said that Mganga is believed to have masterminded the attack on the three, who were on a land-buying mission.

They included Kilifi businessman and farmer Sidik Anverali Mohammed Sidik, James Kazungu Kafani, a land agent, and another unidentified man of Indian origin believed to be Sidik’s driver.

“It is believed that the three were on a land buying mission in the area and had toured a piece of land that Sidik intended to buy, before they were attacked by a machete wielding mob that butchered them to death,” said DCI.

Adding that eyewitnesses said Kazungu had pleaded with the attackers in their local Giriama dialect begging them to spare their lives, but the assailants who were determined to eliminate them would hear none of his pleas.

“The lifeless bodies of the three that had deep cuts on the heads appeared to have been dragged on the ground for a distance, before they were left sprawled by the roadside near Junju secondary school.”

The detectives said after processing the crime scene, forensic evidence pointed towards Mganga who has been arrested as the key suspect.

DCI has vowed to leave no stone untouched.