Mum of Slain Nairobi Journalist Says Alleged Killer Boyfriend Visited Her Home Twice: "Namjua"

 

Police in Kahawa West are investigating the murder of a 33-year-old woman who was found murdered at her alleged boyfriend’s house. Mum of Nairobi journalist Lilian Achieng, allegedly murdered by her boyfriend, says he visited her home twice. 

 Lilian Achieng Aluko was found dead with visible injuries on her face and a stab wound behind her right ear. Speaking in a report by Citizen TV, Achieng’s mother, Jane Akinyi Aluko, narrated events before her daughter’s death “The police called me, and upon my arrival, they showed me a house with a blue gate, saying my daughter’s body was inside,” she said.

 Mother of slain Nairobi journalist says she knows the suspect Akinyi further revealed that she knows George Mutegi, her daughter’s alleged boyfriend and killer. She said he had visited her twice, enough to know him well.

 “The suspect she visited is George Mutegi, who has not been arrested. I have seen him, he has come to my house twice. He is somebody I know,” she stated. She explained that the slain journalist left home to visit her friend, who is the main suspect in her murder but did not return home as expected. “She left home around 11am to visit her friend George Mutegi at Jua Kali.

 However, she did not return, and on Friday, November 1, at around a few minutes to 6pm, I received a call from an unknown number informing me of what had transpired," Akinyi added. Family and friends mourn Kahawa West journalist Achieng worked at a local radio station in Kahawa West called Radio 44. One of her friends, Lilian Odingo mourned her as a good girl who was also good at her job. “She was presenting for Radio 44 and a very good presenter. We have lost a good girl in the hands of a person she probably really loved,” she stated. The brother, Shadrack Aluko, said receiving the call about his sister’s demise is something he would not wish on anyone. 

“It sounds like a movie to you, seeing past events, but I never imagined it could happen to my own sister,” he said. Her sister, Diane Aluko asked for justice to be served and those responsible for Lilian’s death to be brought to book. “I am heartbroken and devastated because her life has been taken too soon. What we wish is justice for her, and we ask Kenyans to pray for the Aluko family because this is not easy to handle,” she stated. 

by  Lynn-Linzer Kibebe