New Details Emerge in Murder of Renowned Nyeri Businessman

New details have emerged in the murder of renowned Nyeri businessman Erasmus Kinyua who was killed in December 2021.

In the tragic murder, his widow, Doris Wambua is suspected to be at the centre of it all.

In the new revelations, a  prisons officer, a nurse, a boda boda operator and an alleged KWS are believed to have committed the murder.

File image of slain businessman Erasmus Kinyua. |Photo| Courtesy|

Kinyua, who owned electronic shop businesses in Nyeri Town, was lured to his farm in Kanemi where he was brutally murdered.

The businessman had listed part of his estate for sale and it is believed his killers posed as potential buyers and beat him to death.

He is said to have driven him to the land, where they killed him. Nothing was taken from him, according to area residents who found him dead and his car abandoned at the crime scene.

A postmortem conducted on Kinyua's body revealed that he died of a blunt force trauma to the head.

Detectives in the murder believe that the businessman's murder was a contract killing worth Ksh400,000.

It is believed that an extramarital affair between Kinyua's widow and a prisons officer attached to Nyeri Main Prison in King’ong’o likely triggered the murder.

Nyeri sub-county Criminal Investigations Officer John Gacheru confirmed the arrest of Doris Wambui, the widow, and Police Constable Benson Musili as the prime suspects in the murder.

The other three suspects have also been arrested.

“We have a total of five suspects in custody with links to the murder. We are in the process of piecing up the forensic evidence and questioning potential witnesses before we begin the trial,” Gacheru said.

It is said that the prison warder and Wambui had been in an affair for years until the late businessman caught wind of the illicit relationship.

He is then said to have cut his widow off from his businesses, properties, triggering a row between the two.

Wambui reportedly hatched the plan to murder the businessman with her lover and two accomplices, and hired hitmen for Ksh400,000.

Police are currently investigating allegations of the payment.

“There have been such reports, which we are investigating, and we will ascertain if they are true and how each suspect was involved,” Gacheru told the Nation.

File image of Doris Wambui and prisons officer Benson Musili. |Photo| Courtesy|