Two more people arrested over murder suspect Kevin Kangethe's escape from police custody

Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin has confirmed the arrest of two people in connection with the disappearance of murder suspect Kevin Kang’ethe from Muthaiga Police Station.

DCI Amin says the two are believed to have aided Kang’ethe to escape and are now working with police to ensure he is captured.

Sources close to investigations have revealed to Citizen TV that those arrested are close family members who could have been in communication with the fugitive.

The arrest comes a day after city lawyer Beatrice Ngethe who is allegedly linked to Kang’ethe was arrested and released on Ksh.100,000 cash bail.

She had been picked up by DCI officers and held by police at an unknown location since Friday last week on claims that she may have assisted the murder suspect's escape from Muthaiga Police Station.

The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) later demanded her immediate release.

Kang’ethe is wanted in the US for the brutal murder of his 31-year-old Kenyan-born girlfriend, Maggie Mbitu, at an airport in the U.S. before he fled to Kenya.

The deceased’s body was discovered inside a vehicle at Boston's Logan Airport in November last year.

Following his arrest in Nairobi, Kang’ethe was presented in court on a miscellaneous application where detectives were granted 30 days to detain him pending a determination on whether he would be extradited to the US.

The suspect last week daringly escaped from the station in broad daylight at around 5.30pm in the presence of the station commander who only reportedly heard a commotion as her officers attempted to chase after the fleeing Kang'ethe.

The police said that at around 4pm, a man identified as John Maina Ndegwa arrived at the station and introduced himself to the officers as a personal lawyer to Kang'ethe and that he wished to talk to his client.

The officers are said to have obliged the request and went ahead to remove the suspect from the cells leaving him alone with his 'lawyer' in a different room; anti-crime office number 3.

"After a short while the prisoner escaped by running away and left the lawyer behind,” read a police report.

“At the time of the escape the station commander Chief Inspector Esther Muchomba was chairing a meeting/lecture with all the Anti-crime personnel and members of the inspectorate while at her office, she was alerted by a loud noise of officers who were chasing the prisoner along Thika Super Highway but they did not manage to re-arrest him.”

Four police officers, Elijah Kipkiror (Cell sentry), James Maina (report personnel), Ann Wanjiku (station guard) and Hassan Saman (Station Guard) who were on duty have since been arrested as they undergo interrogation on the incident.

The advocate, John Maina Ndegwa, is also in police custody.