A prime suspect in the murder probe of Nairobi Hospital Acting Finance Director Eric Maigo was Tuesday night arrested.
Police said Anne Adhiambo Akinyi alias Nut who has been on the run since last week Thursday, was arrested in Kibera slums, Nairobi in an intelligence-led operation by Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives.
A combined team from Kilimani Sun County and DCI headquarters were in the operation.
She was detained at the Muthaiga Police Station awaiting transfer to the Kilimani Police Station which is handling the matter.
She will be arraigned on Wednesday.
Police said she was hiding at a friend’s house in the Bombolulu area.
Police said Sunday that the teenager linked to the cold-blooded murder of Maigo “missed” her by a whisker after she left a house she had spent overnight in the Olympic area.
She had also spent in her mother’s house.
Witnesses who called the police said they later spotted her near the Cemetery area and Jamhuri while using a hood to hide her identity.
Her house had no bed.
It had an old mattress which was sprawled on the floor.
The detectives combed parts of Kibera slums and traced friends and relatives of the 17-year-old suspect as they tried to understand her background before she was arrested.
They also went to various health facilities in an effort to find out if she sought any medical help after she was captured on camera falling on sharp razors forming part of a war around where Maigo lived as she escaped the scene.
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His lifeless body was found in a pool of blood on September 15.
Officials have since confirmed he was stabbed 25 times.
The motive is yet to be known.
Detectives Friday recovered clothes believed to have been worn by the main suspect during the murder of Maigo.
The clothes a red checkered shirt and a grey pair of animal-print pants were found in a semi-permanent wooden shack in Bombolulu village, deep inside the sprawling Kibera slums.
The suspect is believed to be between 15 to 17 years old.
She is said to have sat her KCPE examination at the Dagoretti-approved school between 2021 and 2022.
The suspect who was captured leaving the victim’s residence at Woodley Annex -Upper is believed to have been involved in the murder most foul before escaping through the back door, the DCI said.
Two blood-stained knives believed to have been the murder weapons were recovered from the scene of a crime.
Maigo will be buried at his Keumbu, Kisii rural home on September 29.
Another female suspect who had been arrested over the saga was released for lack of evidence.
Cynthia Lusega Andalo was produced in court under miscellaneous application and later set free.
