• The woman comes from Bungoma and had told friends she intended to leave for Uganda for a while
• Detectives said she was trailed to Kakamega, where she was seeking directions for her destination
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A house help suspected of killing Kilifi Fisheries chief officer Rahab Karisa has been arrested.
Police said she was arrested in Kakamega as she sought to escape to Uganda.
The woman comes from Bungoma and had told some friends she intended to leave for Uganda for a while, police said.
Detectives said she was trailed to Kakamega, where she was seeking directions for her destination.
Coast head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation Ali Bule confirmed the arrest.
“She was arrested in Kakamega and the team is on the way here with her,” he said.
Police investigators say she stabbed the employer after an argument over money.
Rahab had just arrived from a week-long work tour of Italy when an argument ensued between her and her aunt and the house help.
Investigators said Rahab found Sh32,000 missing from the Sh100,000 she had been keeping in her house.
"She sought answers from the house help as well as her aunt about the whereabouts of the money and threatened to report them to the police in the morning," an investigator said.
Preliminary findings show she asked the maid who had picked the money and she denied knowledge of the same.
This degenerated into shouting and led to a fight that left the officer with stab wounds. She bled to death in her house.
One of their neighbours said they heard someone scream once but no one thought much about it until they started hearing commotion in the compound.
Her children were in a different room, oblivious of the tragedy. Police say she could have survived if someone intervened.
“She died out of bleeding. Had she gotten help, she would be alive,” one officer said.