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Makadara Senior Principal Magistrate Mary Njagi on Monday, November 4 ordered that Hashim Dagane Muhumed be held at Ruaraka Police Station until December 2, 2024, when police will produce him in court for further directions.
The suspect appeared before the Makadara Law Courts, where detectives requested that his detention be extended until the conclusion of their investigation.
Detectives said Hashim poses a flight risk if released, pointing out that he had already relocated after committing the crimes.
The magistrate ordered his detention pending probe.
The families of the slain women were at the court as the suspect was produced under security.
Police have established that Hashim had shaved his beard as part of an effort to avoid detection.
He was arrested Sunday in Eastleigh, Nairobi after almost two weeks of hide and seek.
He had been hiding in Eastleigh for weeks even as detectives extended his search to Somalia and Ethiopia.
Hashim told detectives on Sunday he had shaved his beard to avoid any form of suspicion.
Even after he was linked to the murder of the three members of the same family, he chose to hide in Eastleigh as a hunt on him went on.
He could leave his hideout and take a walk before returning.
But an informer who was aware of his being in the area informed police of the same days ago and a hunt on him intensified.
On Saturday, November 2, CCTV footage captured him walking out of a building in Eastleigh, where he was a regular while staking for taxi customers.
An extensive manhunt was launched, with
investigators monitoring his movements through forensic trails.
Despite his attempts to elude capture, including using multiple phone numbers to mislead the authorities, he was cornered on Sunday in the area.
He surrendered from a building he was hiding on realizing police were outside looking for him, police said.
Authorities discovered that Hashim possessed several fake documents, including a Kenyan ID.
Investigators have established that he
previously served as a regional police officer in Ethiopia before relocating to
Kenya, where he worked as a driver in various schools in Eastleigh.
Hashim was wanted for grilling over the murder of Amina Abdirashid, her aunt, Waris Dahabo Daud, and her niece, Nusayba Abdi Mohammed from Eastleigh in Nairobi.
Police
believe he knew the slain woman and has been involved in the extortion business in
the city in the past.
Investigations have established that Hashim, 34, 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 near the ENA Coach stage and towed to DCI Headquarters for forensic examination, further linking Hashim Dagane to the killings.
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 October 25 showed Waris had her neck severed, her hands chopped off and was tortured.
Pathologists said Amina Abdirashid Dahir died of a stabbing.
Nusayba Abdi Mohammed died out of smothering, the autopsy report said.
