Homicide detectives rule out abduction of NLC official Jennifer Wambua

Homicide detectives probing the gruesome murder of National Lands Commission (NLC) deputy director Jennifer Wambua have ruled out abduction before disappearance, saying that she left her car at the commission’s headquarters before proceeding to Ngong for prayer in isolation.

Detectives concluded this after mobile phone record analysis led them to a conversation between Wambua and a Machakos-based religious leader who advised her to take some time alone in the forest and pray over her depression.

It is after coming from prayers that she met Peter Njenga, the main suspect in the murder, who offered to get her drinking water before sexually assaulting her then strangling her to death according to detectives.

Two other suspects in custody, Benjamin Saitoti and David Sempuan, who saw her alive on the evening of May 3 when she was reported to have disappeared are in police custody.