A suspect wanted for the alleged murder of three family members in Eastleigh; a mother, daughter and 12-year-old niece, is from Ethiopia.
Detectives say investigations show the suspect is from Ethiopia’s Somalia region and had illegally obtained a Kenyan identification card.
He also served as a regional police officer in Ethiopia before
he was arrested and jailed over claims of murder.
He later fled to Kenya where he set up a base and started a taxi
business in Eastleigh and Parklands.
“Part of his family members are in Ethiopia. He now could be in
Kenya, Ethiopia or Somalia,” an investigator aware of the probe said.
Village elders in places he could be seeking refugee have been alerted to arrest and hand him to Kenyan authorities.
Police believe he knew the slain women and has been involved in suspected extortion business in the city in the past.
He is wanted for grilling over the murder of Amina Abdirashid, her aunt, Waris Dahabo Daud, and her niece, Nusayba Abdi Mohammed from Eastleigh in Nairobi.
He abandoned his car in Nairobi and escaped.
Investigations conducted so far have established that the man, 24, was driving the Nissan Note car captured on CCTV cameras picking the victims from their Eastleigh home on October 21, 2024, hours before their bodies were discovered scattered at various locations.
The vehicle was also found abandoned at Wakulima Market and towed to DCI Headquarters for forensic examination, further linking him to the killings.
“With one suspect in custody and assisting in the investigation, we appeal to anyone who may have information that could assist in the arrest of Hashim Dagane Muhumed to #FichuakwaDCI by calling our toll-free hotline 0800 722 203 or report at any police station,” the DCI said.
He has been placed at the crime scene of a house where the women were brutally murdered.
The women were buried Saturday at the Lang’ata Cemetery in Nairobi.
Police said preliminary investigations show the three were killed in a dispute over a ransom demand by their abductors.
The suspect is said to have contacted a relative of the Waris demanding a ransom but the relative dismissed him.
It was then that the suspect attacked them for failing to pay the demanded ransom and identifying him while in captivity.
Police are talking to at least four persons of interest. They include guards of an apartment where the murder incident took place, the owner of the apartment and a suspected accomplice.
A suspect and a survivor of the murder have told police the killers had
demanded ransom from the women but became brutal when they realised the victims
had identified them.
On October 21 Waris Dahabo Daud Said, 38, Amina Abdirashid Dahir, 22 and Nusayba Abdi Mohammed, 12 went missing before their bodies with stab wounds were discovered on October 22, 2024 at around 6 am at different locations.
The bodies of Nusayba, Amina and Dahabo were found at Bahati in Makadara, 6th
Avenue Parklands and Khyumbi, in Machakos respectively, with the hands of
Dohabo chopped off.
On October 23, two human hands were recovered at South C along Five-Star Road, police said.
A postmortem exercise conducted on the bodies of the women on Friday, October 25
showed Waris had her neck severed, her hands chopped off and was tortured.
Chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor said Amina Abdirashid Dahir died
out of a stabbing.
“The stab wound went to the heart. We believe she died out of stabbing,” Oduor said.
He added Nusayba Abdi Mohammed died out of smothering. There were indications of rape on her.
The pathologist took samples from the victims for further analysis.
Detectives are interrogating a woman who claims she was abducted and detained
with the three slain women.
The woman alleged she was also abducted by the same killers of the three slain
women.
She alleges that she was abducted along with the three victims and was held in
the same room where they were locked up for hours.
She told police she heard the killers argue the slain women had identified them
which was dangerous and would expose them.
The abductors, according to the woman, demanded a ransom to release them, and her family managed to raise Sh1 million, which was deposited into an Ethiopian bank account.
Police are analysing CCTV footage and payment details from a petrol station where the suspect fuelled the vehicle during this journey.