Osinde Died From Slash Wounds, Main Suspect Found To Have A Criminal Record

KISII Kenya June 30 -The prime suspect in the brutal murder of former Treasury official Tom Osinde, his employee Julius Mugoi, has a criminal record and had been implicated in another attempted murder case.

Mugoi 33, from Nyakeyo village in South Mugirango, Kisii county had not been to his rural home for about three years and was only seen on June 18 while driving the deceased’s Toyota Landcruiser.

Mugoi spent the night in his village with Osinde’s car, something neighbours and villagers found shocking and unusual. 

According to some neighbours and former schoolmates at Nyakeyo Primary School, the suspect had even stolen Sh100,000 belonging to his cousin before he escaped.

Mugoi was seen driving Osinde’s car in his village and to the place it was found dumped and vandalized on the roadside in Kiligoris.

Body Of Ex-Treasury Staff Osinde Found In River Kuja Days After Going Missing

He is said to have driven the Toyota Landcruiser to a car wash in Osinde’s village a day after he was reported missing.

“He told us to wash the car from outside only because it was not dirty inside,” a cash wash attendant said.

The postmortem was conducted on Friday June 30 and revealed that Osinde died from two slash wounds.

The Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor, who conducted the autopsy at the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital, revealed that the cuts caused damage to the brain and injured the spine.

Osinde went missing on June 17 and his decomposed body was later found in River Kuja in Migori County.

The body was picked up by Kamagambo police officers on June 22 and detectives also recovered polythene papers believed to have been used in choking the deceased.

Before he went missing, his vehicle was seen leaving his residence being driven by a strange person.

Some boda boda operators near Osinde’s Ngata farm said Osinde would usually greet them but that day, he did not.

Detectives also said two electricity switches in the upper staircase of his Ngata home had been vandalized and part of the probe is to establish if they were vandalized before or after he went missing

“I saw the vehicle leaving the residence but it was being driven by a strange person who did not even greet us,” one of them said.

Osinde is the brother to Ken Osinde, the former Chief of Staff in president Ruto’s office when he was the deputy president.

His body is expected to be transferred from Kisii to a morgue in Nakuru.