Twist As Detectives Discover Body Believed To Be Of Missing Taxi Driver Victoria Mumbua
Per the investigations, the body was found in a thicket within Mai Mahiu next to a road in Lari, Kiambu County.
Marvin Chege 
The case involving missing taxi driver, Victoria Mumbua Muloki took a fresh twist on Wednesday, October 2 after detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) discovered a body believed to be of her.
The female body was discovered at the Nairobi City Mortuary following an intense interrogation session with the main suspect in the case, Edwin Ng’etich, who was found with the deceased's stolen motor vehicle.
Per the investigations, the body was found in a thicket within Mai Mahiu next to a road in Lari, Kiambu County.
Police were notified of the matter and it was brought to the City Mortuary, where it was booked on September 29, 2024, as an unknown body before Criminal Intelligence and Research Bureau (CRIB) detectives, who were profiling the suspect, played a key role in the discovery.
A photo collage of Victoria Mumbua Muloki and the male suspect. /DAILY POST
Ng’etich was arrested in Nakuru while driving Muloki's motor vehicle. He opened up to detectives after intense questioning, and further reports indicated that he led police to the location where he dumped the body.
Muloki’s family in Mombasa was notified, with the family revealing that they would be travelling to Nairobi to conduct further identification processes, including DNA profiling, as police plan for a postmortem examination to determine the cause of death.
Meanwhile, records revealed that Ng’etich committed similar offences in the past.
Muloki, a Mombasa-based taxi driver, went missing on Friday, September 27, after accepting a ride request from a Kenyan who wanted to be taken from Mombasa to Samburu. Two days later, police arrested the 33-year-old suspect at the Pipeline Junction along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway as he was driving a white Nissan Serena, believed to belong to Mumbua.
Following the suspect's arrest, a series of contradicting reports emerged after Muloki's mother Anne Kanini received information that her daughter had been found injured and unconscious in Migori county and would be airlifted back to Mombasa.
Hours after the update, however, neither the family nor the media had received further information on Mumbua's whereabouts, sparking concern. Later, it became clear that Mumbua's family fell for misleading information after the victim's mother revealed they had sent Ksh20,000 to someone in Migori who said the money would facilitate Mumbua's transportation back to Mombasa.
The caller switched off their phone after receiving the aforementioned amount from Mumbua's family, who were left guessing about the fate of their kin, particularly because police spokesperson Resila Onyango also appeared to corroborate reports that the taxi driver had been found.
This is as police plan for a postmortem examination to know the course of the death. The motive of the incident remains unknown for now.
