Unfortunately for her, the
people she contracted were police informants.She was nabbed after the supposed
hit-men, came to tell her the job was done and told her to rush to the house
where the body was....
She admitted before senior
principal magistrate Peter Ndwiga that she wanted to get rid of John Muthee
Guama, her husband of 16 years and father of their two children, as a result of
“long-running domestic problems”.
“It is true I conspired to kill him because
he has been beating me and not paying school fees for the children. I am
everything in the house; his only work is to drink and move around with other
women,”
According to the facts of
the case read by Chief Inspector Daniel Thuku, the couple had been experiencing
domestic wrangles over allegations that Mr Guama was having an affair with a
woman identified as Njeri Waamba.Fearing that he could leave her for another
woman, she hatched a plan to eliminate him through a hit squad so that she
could be left with the family property.
She approached an
acquaintance known as Mama Kevo with a view of hiring the hit squad, who in
turn approached a Mr Wilson Mwangi.
“Mr Mwangi immediately informed the officer
in-charge of Flying Squad who then assigned officers Moses Gitwahi, Joseph
Langat and Peter Nderitu to carry out the investigations,” said Mr Thuku.
The three officers agreed to pose as
gangsters for hire after which Mwangi introduced them to her on June 17. They
arranged to meet at Wairimu’s food kiosk at Zimmerman estate in Nairobi where she
told the officers that she had earlier paid $470 (Sh40,000) to another group of
killers who failed to accomplish the mission and disappeared with the money.
It was revealed that it was the third time
the woman had tried to kill her husband through a similar plot.
She then demanded to know if
the “killers” were armed for the assignment and was shown an official gun.
“The
officers agreed to accomplish the job that evening upon receiving a down
payment of Sh40,000 with a promise that the remaining $1,880 (Sh160,000) will
be paid after the killing,” said Mr Thuku.
They then hung around the food kiosk and at
around 4.15pm, Mr Gitwahi received Sh40,000 through M-Pesa (mobile telephone
money transfer) sent by Faith Wairimu. She followed the transaction with a
message asking if he had received the money.
She then gave the three her husband’s two
passport photos to identify him and his phone number to call him in the pretext
that they were customers or suppliers seeking to negotiate a business deal.
That evening, the three called the husband but he did not show up.
On June 18, Wairimu called
the “killers” in the morning informing them that they were together with her
husband at Githurai outside Equity Bank.
“The officers drove there
and when she saw them, she stepped a few metres away to enable them have a
better shot. Instead, the officers picked him and took him to Kasarani police
station and disclosed what was happening,” said Mr Thuku.
At the station, they called
Wairimu who told them to order her husband to disclose where he had put title
deeds for their land and then kill him. A few minutes later, they called her
with information that they had accomplished the killing and were going to
collect the balance of Sh160,000.
The magistrate deferred the
sentencing to June 28.
Source: Standard news
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