By CYRUS OMBATI
A televangelist has been arrested over the murder of his girlfriend in Nairobi’s Dagoretti area.
Police are holding Pastor Paul Ng’ang’a Wanjiru of Wells of Faith Church and his son James Mutua over the murder of the woman who was identified as Caroline Chinjira, an employee of Panafric Hotel.
The two are accused of strangling Chinjira along the Southern by-pass in Lang’ata area on Friday night before she died on Saturday while undergoing treatment.
Chinjira was four months pregnant, which according to the family and police was the source of the conflict with the suspects.
She also had a son belonging to the pastor.
She had been strangled on her neck and died out of profuse bleeding at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
And when the news of the arrest of the pastor broke out on Sunday, his followers descended on his church in Kawangware area and demolished it in anger.
The drama started on Friday night at the by-pass as she, and the suspects drove to drop her home.
Apparently, according to police the pastor and his son had planned to commit the offence. And on reaching at the road, the son started to strangle the woman using a wire as she seated on the co-driver’s seat while his father drove at a slow pace.
The site of the incident is usually quiet at night and is taken to be a den of crime as many people have been attacked there in the past.
And as the struggle continued, Chinjira managed to overpower the son and sneak out of the move car and dashed into darkness as they allegedly pursued her.
She told police before she died she ran on foot up to Ngong Road near Lenana School where she found a Securicor car and sought help from them.
"She had sought help from other motorists using the road in vain. It forced her to walk to near Lenana School where she got help from the guards," said Lang’ata OCPD Rono Bunei.
She narrated her story to the guards informing them what she had gone through before they drove back to the scene where she said the attack happened.
The guards drove with the deceased to the scene where she said she had been attacked and found the pastor and the son still there.
They allegedly informed the guards that they had been carjacked by gunmen who escaped without knowing Chinjira was in the security van.
According to Dagoretti OCPD Mathew Gwiyo, Ng’ang’a and Mutua drove to Muthangari police station and reported being carjacked.
At the same time, as he reported the matter, Chinjira was making a report at the Karen police station of assault by the pastor.
"This prompted the officers on duty to detain the pastor briefly after the woman reported of being beaten before we released him on bond. But he was arrested after she died," said Gwiyo.
Gwiyo added the pastor and his son are expected in court Monday morning to face murder charges.
The woman was rushed to hospital where she died while undergoing treatment on Saturday.
It has since emerged the pregnancy was the source of the conflict and that the pastor did not want it to mature, police revealed.
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