Police have been allowed to detain for four more days a driver and a rider who allegedly blocked the vehicle Dr Victoria Nthunya Mutiso was being driven before she was gunned down in a gangland-style shooting on July 29, 2026.
Daniel Mwangi Njoroge and Kevin Ngugi Kinuthia will assist police to unearth the reasons and motive of the murder of the prominent neuroscientist.
Njoroge and Kinuthia were first brought before a Milimani Law Courts senior principal magistrate Paul Mutai on August 10, 2026, alongside Police Constable Elijah Kibellion Kimoi who has since been charged with murder alongside four others among them Rose Mbithe Mulwa alias Rose Mbithe Ndetei.
In total nine suspects have been arrested and detained to assist police dymistify the cold blooded murder of Dr Mutiso, a prominent neuroscientist and a former director of African Institute of Mental and Brain Health.
Those behind bars for the brutal killing are Rose Mbithe, her two children Chris and Angella (both lawyers), PC Kimoi and three suspects who had fled to Uganda.
The four have been charged with murder but have not pleaded until September 23, 2026, when their mental status reports shall be availed before Justice Alexander Muteti.
The Uganda three – a Police Constable Collins Kiplangat Bett,Pius Muiru Mbugua alias Headboy and Samuel Karanja Gathoni alias Wakili - were deported after the Ugandan Authorities penalized them for being in that country.
They were handed over to Kenyan Police by Inter-Pol on August 26,2026. They were detained until October 1,2026 when they will be returned to court for further directions.
Urging magistrate Mutai to grant the four more days the lead investigator Corporal Romana Oduor said there are a few loose ends in the investigation diary which can only completed with the assistance of Daniel Mwangi Njoroge and Kevin Ngugi Kinuthia.
Njoroge is the one who is said to have blocked Dr Mutiso driving a Prado while Kinuthia allegedly rode PC Kimoi to the scene of shooting along Mawenzi Road Kilimani.
“I urge this court to grant me four more days to keep Njoroge and Kinuthia to assist in demystifying a few grey areas in the investigation diary,” CPL Oduor pleaded.
The suspects opposed saying they have been in custody since August 10,2026 there-by claiming their rights are being violated as a co-suspect they were detained together PC Kimoi has since been charged before the High Court.
Police Constable Kimoi of Karinde Police Post which falls under Kikuyu Police Station was presented before Milimani law courts senior principal magistrate Paul Mutai on august 10,2026.
The three suspects bail application was rejected were being detained at Ruaraka, Pangani and Gigiri Police stations respectively.
The court heard the suspects are a threat to the intended 50 witnesses and also their safety cannot be guaranteed. The officer added members of the public are angry with the suspects and may attack them once freed on bond.
Corporal Romana Oduor disclosed to the court “preliminary investigations have established PC Kimoi is the one who fired a fatal shot.”
CPL Oduor added police have established Njoroge is the one who was driving a vehicle registration KDH 600A (a black Toyota prado) which blocked the Uber Toyotta which the deceased had boarded.”
The third respondent (Kinuthia) the allegedly dropped PC Kimoi at the scene of murder and picked him after the shooting.
Magistrate Paul Mutai heard Kinuthia was riding a motor bike KMGZ 980D.
The lead investigator said police recovered a spent catridge and a bullet head retrieved from the body of the deceased after autopsy.
Also a Mini Jericho pistol serial number 47302127 was recovered.
She told the court after a forensic analysis was done on the bullet retrieved from the deceased body showed that it was fired from the Mini Jericho pistol issued to “a senior police officer who is on the run.”
The magistrate heard that the shocking death of the medic is linked to a protracted legal tussle of a dispute pitting 21 acres of prime land in Mlolongo between Ms Mulwa, who divorced respected and eminent Doctor Prof David Musyimi Ndetei.
CPL Oduor said police are following the land dispute strand to establish whether it could have led to the deceased's elimination.
Urging for more time, the DCI officer said police need time to record evidence from over 50 witnesses whom the court heard could be interfered with by the respondent.
“Among the key witnesses from whom police need statements include Prof Ndetei who is yet to recover from the shock and trauma he suffered to enable police record a statement,” CPL Oduor stated.
She said the nature of investigations police are undertaking are complex and require elaborate inquiries.
However Angella Mulwa and one Nelson Masiga Makaralu have since been charged at the Mavoko Law Courts with theft of a KES 15 million high end vehicle from the Mlolongo home of the deceased.
The two also face charges of forgery of court documents and malicious damage to property at the KES 1.5 billion Mlolongo property which has been at the centre of a bitter legal dispute pitting Rose Mbithe and her former co-wife.
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