The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has identified a man believed to be the mastermind of the sexual harassment incident perpetrated on a female motorist on Wangari Maathai Road in Nairobi last Friday.
In a statement issued on Tuesday evening, the DCI said the suspect identified as Zachariah Nyaora Obadia was scientifically placed at the crime scene before he was traced down to Mukuru Kaiyaba informal settlement.
According to the DCI, Nyaora was traced by sleuths drawn from Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) and DCI Nairobi but he however managed to narrowly escape the detectives’ dragnet through a sewer duct in the densely populated settlement.
“Using digital forensics, the sleuths working with cybercrime experts at the DCI National Forensic Laboratory, placed the thug at the scene of the crime scientifically and went after him this afternoon deep in Mukuru Kayaba informal settlement,” read the statement.
The suspect is also said to have been positively identified on the video capturing the sexual assault incident by his wife and other relatives in his rural home.
While assuring of his looming arrest, the DCI further issued an ultimatum for Nyaora’s accomplices to surrender saying that they too have been identified.
“It is only a matter of time before we arrest him. The DCI is cautioning Zacharia Nyaora not to engage detectives in cat and mouse games but to surrender at DCI headquarters or the nearest Police station within 24 hours,” reads the statement.
The multi-agency team added: “His accomplices who were within the vicinity of the barbaric attack whether captured on the video clip or not, have all been identified scientifically. ordered to submit themselves at DCI headquarters before detectives catch up with them.”
