BY BERNARD MOMANYI
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    1/1 Policemen inspect the vehicle at parklands police station/MIKE KARIUKI NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 27 - The owner of a Mercedes Benz linked to the unresolved killing of University of Nairobi student Mercy Keino turned himself in to the police early on Monday, and denied any involvement in her death. Wycliffe Okelo - known to his friends as Defao - who mainly deals in buying and selling property, drove the Mercedes Benz E200 to the Parklands police station at about 9am and told police he knew nothing about the killing. Police have been looking for a Mercedes Benz which night guards at an apartment in Westlands reported seeing dropping off the body of a woman who was later identified as Ms Keino, a Masters Degree student at the UoN. The guards gave the description of the alleged car and the number plates. At the Parklands police station, detectives inspected the vehicle and held a brief session with Mr Okelo before he was whisked away in a station wagon full of heavily armed Flying Squad police officers. "I don't know anything about this issue of a woman who was found dead on Waiyaki Way. I learnt that they have been looking for this car and that is why I drove it here. I have told them [detectives] that," Mr Okelo told us at the station before he was driven away. He admitted that he was on Waiyaki Way on the night of June 17 and slowed down on seeing a body by the roadside, but immediately drove off even without rolling down his windows. A detective involved in the investigation told Capital News that the businessman had been taken to the Nairobi Area Provincial CID offices where he spent the better part of the afternoon recording a statement. He was interrogated by the PCIO Peter Muinde who wanted to have a general understanding of the man's explanation before he handed him back to CID officers from Parklands police station. "He is here recording a statement with us at the station. He has said he does not know what happened to the girl but he has admitted he saw the body lying on the road just like any other motorist," a detective speaking on condition of anonymity said. Police sought to know why he did not bother to report to any police station thereafter, that he had spotted a body on the roadside. He told police he was driving from Kangemi where he had been meeting friends whose telephone numbers he also gave to the detectives to countercheck the information. In his statement, the trader told police he did not know anything about the party attended by Ms Keino that was held at an exclusive apartment block Westlands. The party was attended by among others Juja Member of Parliament William Kabogo who is reported to have differed with the deceased woman before she was escorted out by his bodyguards. Police are seeking to establish what happened next since she was found not far from the apartments. The businessman who recorded a statement with the police on Monday said he does personally know Mr Kabogo or any of the people who attended the party. On Monday, the Universities Student Leaders Association-Kenya issued a statement demanding a thorough explanation from the police on the death within three days. "We are calling upon the police commissioner to catalyse the investigations concerning the death of our colleague. It's a big blow to us because within a very short period of time we have lost students in ways that can't be understood." The association's Secretary General Nandalwe Wanjala said: "We are therefore organising for mass protests if the police are not going to file a report within a period of three days." Follow us on TWITTER @CapitalFM_Kenya and the author at https://twitter.com/momanyi.bernard |
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