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Kenya: Police Link 2 More Murders to Serial Killer

Nairobi — The recent murder of women in Thika Town was carried out by a serial killer targeting prostitutes, according to their colleagues. They say eight commercial sex workers have been killed since last month, but local police confirmed two incidents, where two young women were strangled and their bodies left in lodgings.

Police headquarters confirmed two other killings in the area and directed investigations to establish if the incidents were linked, said police spokesman Eric Kiraithe. Ms Hellen Nyambura and Ms Jackline Wambui, both 25 years old, were strangled on separate days by a man after having sex with them.

Ms Wambui's naked body was found at Suitable Lodging House on February 1, a day after the man picked her from a bar on Uhuru Street, the town's red-light district. A week before, Nyambura's body had been found at Rwamagambo, another lodging, and she too was last seen alive in the company of a man, now labelled serial killer.

Young girls who operate in the town at night are now calling on police to offer them protection in their trade although prostitution is illegal in Kenya. Ms Mary Ngeru, alias Mama Ruo, a businesswoman in the town, is leading the crusade to have the police protect the girls and investigate the killings.

For a long time, she has commanded the respect of street girls in the town, whom she says are propelled into prostitution by lack of education and poverty. On Thursday last week, she gathered a group of prostitutes at a bar in the town to express their fears.

But police stormed the premises and arrested them, "claiming that they were spreading false information about a serial killer", said Ms Ngeru. Ms Peninah Mwangi, the chair of Bar Hostesses Empowerment and Support Programme, also moved to Thika to express support for the women.

Contacted, the police officer in charge of operations in Thika, Mr Charles Rotich, denied the claim, saying those being held were arrested in regular round-ups targeting prostitutes in the town. By the time of going to press, the Saturday Nation had failed to locate two prostitutes who claimed to have come face to face with the killer but escaped death by a whisker.

They are said to have jumped out of bed and dashed out of the room when they discovered "weird mannerisms with their client". "One of them said she got nervous after the man kept on placing his hand around her neck yet she told him not to do so and had to struggle to fend him off," Ms Ngeru told the Saturday Nation.

"He is a short man with a distinctive black mark on one of his cheeks. He's stout and his complexion is neither dark nor light," she quoted one of the girls who spoke to her. Ms Ngeru added: "The girls usually charge Sh100 for a short time with a man but the girls say the suspect had offered them Sh500 to have sex with them."

They further described the suspect as smart looking, casually dressed and speaks Kiswahili. After the reports of a serial killer on the loose emerged, police ordered lodging attendants not to allow in clients unless they produced their national identity cards.

Mr Rotich blamed lodging attendants for failure to take details of their clients. Mr Kiraithe disclosed that measures had been put in place to stop the killings. He said: "We are using all tactics in the book to ensure it comes to an end. There have been four cases since the last time it was reported and we expect that problem to be solved soon."

A team of officers is said to have been sent to the town with instructions to keep vigil at entertainment spots frequented by prostitutes. Preliminary investigations indicate the emergence of a gang trying to infiltrate prostitution and impose "illegal protection fees" on the women.

The Saturday Nation visited the homes of the two victims whose cases are pending at police stations. Ms Monicah Wanjira took care of Ms Nyambura since she was young after the death of her mother. "I took her under my care after her mother died. I've been staying with her and her two children until she got into the trade and left," she said.

Ms Nyambura had two children aged less than eight years and lived in Makongeni slums. As for Wambui, she stayed with her mother in Gatukuyu village.

"She left on a Sunday after receiving a telephone call. Later that evening she called, saying she would not come back home. I got anxious when I did not hear from her on Monday. Two days later I was informed by one of her friends that she had died," said her mother, Ms Margaret Nduta. All along she told her mother she had been employed as a "maid" but did not say where.
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