After the prime suspect behind the murders of women in the Kware area of Mukuru Kwa Njenga was nabbed on Monday, July 15, family members of his victims are coming forward to narrate their accounts of their kin’s disappearance.
Among them is the mother of the first-ever victim, Imelda Judith Kamenya, who was the wife of the suspect, Collins Jomaisi Khausha, who met her death at his hands in 2022.
Kamenya’s mother was speaking at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Headquarters, where she presented herself after the news of Khalusha’s arrest, narrating how dumbfounded she was when she learned that her daughter, who had gone missing since 2022, was no more.
She narrated how she was in constant communication over the years with Kamenya up until 2022, when she became untraceable and stopped replying to her messages online via WhatsApp.
It was not until the discovery of mutilated bodies at the Kware dumpsite and consequent arrest of Collins by DCI sleuths that she pieced the puzzle that her daughter was one of his victims, only to hear that she was his first and died almost two years prior.
“She had gone quiet but sometimes she came online chatting with other people,” the mother recalled.
“In 2022, however, her account went silent and never responded to text messages. Since then, I have never heard from her again. I have just heard today that she was murdered.”
In a press briefing on Monday morning, DCI boss Mohamed Amin revealed the identity of Collins, sharing that he was apprehended for the murders in a sting operation at the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums.
Collins who lives 500 meters away from the Kware Dumpsite where nine bodies have been found, admitted to killing 42 women since 2022.
During interrogation, Amin stated that Collins revealed that his wife who he married in 2022 was his first victim.
He explained that he strangled her to death out of frustration, accusing her of squandering the two businesses he founded for her.
This would trigger a killing spree where he targeted, lured, and killed all the follow-up victims in a similar style.
“Unfortunately, the suspect alleged that the first victim was his wife namely Imelda Judith who he strangled to death before dismembering her body and dumping it at the same site.
“From our interrogation, all his victims had been murdered in the same style,” stated Amin.
The suspect was tailed and arrested in the wee hours of Monday morning outside a club in Kayole, where he had gone to watch a soccer match.
