CCTV Footage Showing Final Moments Before Lilian Waithera Murder

CCTV footage surfaced on Friday, February 17 showing the final moments preceding the fatal shooting of National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) employee Lilian Waithera on Monday, February 13.

The footage as aired on NTV's prime time news showed Waithera, dressed in a black sweater, walking alongside her colleague Damaris Achieng' as they passed a bank along Kaunda Street in Nairobi Central Business District (CBD) at 5.12 pm.

Moments later, the duo cross to the other side of the street, but Waithera is startled as she walked past an eyeglasses shop, as is Achieng' and they remain standing momentarily.

Waithera is then pulled to the roadside where she collapses at the parking zone designated for a local insurance company between two vehicles.

NHIF Employee Murder Mystery:

NTV obtains exclusive CCTV footage showing the moment Lilian Waithera was shot along Kaunda Street in Nairobi CBD.#NTVWeekendEdition @DannMwangi @Karanja_Ibrah pic.twitter.com/PlMzCUa6tn — NTV Kenya (@ntvkenya) February 17, 2023

While the NHIF employee was shot, other Nairobi residents along the street were seen continuing with their businesses, unaware of the happenings and evident enough that no sound of a gunshot was heard.

"A lady came to our door and said that someone had been shot and that we should call an ambulance for her. We all panicked and ran outside to see what happened and we found a lady that had collapsed outside our door and she was bleeding from her mouth and nose," a shopkeeper on the street stated.

A short while after, a crowd mills around the scene and for more than 20 minutes, frantic calls were made to get an ambulance, which arrived at the scene slightly more than 25 minutes later.

It had spent the next 11 minutes at the scene before it rushed Waithera to the hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. 

"Her chest was facing downwards until paramedics came and turned her over while they were trying to give her first aid so that's when we saw blood. We did not actually see it on her clothes, she was just bleeding from her nose and mouth so we didn't quite know what the problem was," added the witness.

Nairobi Regional Police Commander Adamson Bungei threw a major twist after he disclosed that autopsy results showed that the bullet was found in her lungs, despite eyewitnesses reporting not hearing a gunshot in the affected area in the city.

“The bullet entered through the collar bone having been fired from an elevated angle," he stated, adding that the bullet was fired by someone atop one of two buildings along Kaunda Street now placed at the centre of investigations by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).

Mystery emerged across the country following the police boss' finding over the source of the bullet and the possible preliminary location, with reports revealing that the assailant could have been a sniper who could have used a silencer to avoid drawing widespread attention, with a cartridge remaining in the gun, reports the police are yet to confirm.

Wiper Party leader, Kalonzo Musyoka further believed that Waithera could have been a whistleblower and was assassinated after exposing a Ksh1 billion corruption scandal involving a former senior employee by the name of Geoffrey Mwangi.

"There was a woman who was shot by a sniper and this woman, from information, could be a whistleblower, just like the one for the IEBC. She was working at NHIF and was coming from their offices in Upperhill, the driver said she cannot carry her because he will be late, so she and her friend walked on foot to Kaunda street where she was shot.

"They saw that she collapsed and the nearby police officers rushed her to hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival," he addressed during the Azimio rally in Kisii County.

Portrait photo of the late Lilian Waithera. /KELXFY