DCI Launches Probe Into the Viral Story of Hitman Who Purchased Gun Used To Kill Tom Mboya
DCI Launches Probe Into the Viral Story of Hitman Who Purchased Gun Used To Kill Tom Mboya: The attention of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has been drawn to an article in the Saturday Nation dated July 6th, 2024.
The article claims that a 92-year-old man, an Embu county resident purchased the pistol used in the assassination of a renowned Kenyan statesman and the late Minister for Economic Development and National Planning, Tom Mboya.
In an interview, Muruathika alleged that Mboya’s intent to exert control and destabilise the Mau Mau movement led to the decision to eliminate him.
“They organized how this man would be killed, but I was not told where the instructions came from. When they organized how to kill Mboya, I organized how I was going to escape and go home so that when he was shot, I was not there. I am the one who went for the guns at the Somali border,” Muruathika recounted.
In a flashback, the old man claimed to have been among the three hitmen tasked to trail Tom Mboya.
DCI Stated,”The article reports that a 92-year-old man purchased the pistol that was used in the killing of Tom Mboya, a trade unionist, educator, Pan-Africanist, author, former minister and statesman. The DCI has initiated an investigation and necessary action will be taken once the investigation is complete,”
The assassination of Thomas Joseph Mboya on July 5, 1969, remains one of Kenya’s most enigmatic murders.
Mboya who was a prominent trade unionist, educator, Pan-Africanist, author, and Cabinet Minister, was gunned down in broad daylight in Nairobi’s central business district.
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