Man behind Eastleigh murder of three women arrested

The man behind Eastleigh murder of three women arrested

A man believed to be behind the brutal murder of family members - a mother, daughter and 12-year-old niece – was arrested Sunday in Eastleigh, Nairobi.

The man has been hiding in Eastleigh all along as detectives extended his search to Somalia and Ethiopia.

Detectives say investigations show the man 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 of his wife.

He later fled to Kenya where he set up a base and started a taxi business in Eastleigh and Parklands.

The man was wanted for grilling over the murder of Amina Abdirashid, her aunt, Waris Dahabo Daud, and her niece, Nusayba Abdi Mohammed from Eastleigh.

Police believe he knew the slain women and has been involved in the extortion business in the city in the past.

He was taken to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters for further identification and grilling.

“Yes we have someone over the murder of the women, rape, robbery with violence and extortion,” said an officer aware of the developments.

Investigations conducted so far have established that the man, 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 and towed to DCI Headquarters for forensic examination, further linking the man to the killings.  

Police had appealed for the public to help in tracking the suspect.

Informers told police he was held up in Eastleigh until Sunday, November 3 when they found him.

He has been placed at the crime scene of a house where the women were brutally murdered.

The man is said to have called relatives of the slain women demanding ransom for their release.

Police said preliminary investigations show the three were killed in a dispute over a ransom demand by their abductors.

Another accomplice was arrested over the murder and taken to court where police were allowed to hold him for more days as investigations went on.

Detectives are talking to 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 alleged 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 USD7,000 (Sh1 million), which was deposited into an Ethiopian bank account.


The Ethiopian authorities have been contacted for help.  

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 of a stabbing.

“The stab wound went to the heart. We believe she died out of stabbing,” said Oduor.

He added that Nusayba Abdi Mohammed died out of smothering.

There were indications of rape on her.