The mother of Ann Adhiambo, now the main suspect in the murder of Nairobi Hospital Finance Director Eric Maigo, has defended her daughter.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, September 28, the woman revealed that her daughter was a petty thief but not a murderer.
Moreover, she divulged that the suspect had on several occasions, been caught with stolen goods and her behavior had been a concern to the family.
For many years, the relationship between Ann and her mother had been strained. On the night of the murder, September 14, Ann had a quarrel with the mother and was thrown out of the house for a few hours.
However, she came back home at midnight and went to sleep.
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Ann Adhiambo Criminal History
Additionally, the mother narrated an instance where Ann was caught with 20 liters of cooking oil that she had stolen from a local shop.
“On a separate occasion, she came back home with a huge bag of clothes, and I knew immediately that something was wrong.
“I asked her to take me back to Toy Market where she claimed to have bought the clothes, so that I could ascertain if they were stolen,” she stated.
Ann’s behavior, according to her mother, had become a menace forcing her to call her sister to host the girl and transfer her to a different school in Kayole.
However, Ann stole Ksh19,000 from the staffroom in her new school, shortly after joining the institution. An incident that broke her mother’s heart.
Despite her mother’s attempt to help her, Ann Adhiambo dropped out of school, forfeiting a full scholarship that she had received from a philanthropist.
“She studied until class four and after that I did not know what to do about her behavior anymore. She was absconding school and coming back in the evening in pretense that she was at school,” added the mother.
Erick Maigo Murder Case
Erick Maigo was reported dead on Thursday, September 14 after police officers discovered his body lying next to two kitchen knives that had the same sets of fingerprints.
Moreover, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) revealed that Maigo had been stabbed 25 times in the neck, chest, face, and other parts of his body.
On Wednesday, September 20, detectives released a CCTV footage that was retrieved from a popular entertainment club opened along Ngong Road linking three women to the case, including Ann Adhiambo.
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Involvement in the Murder
DCI announced that they had discovered one suspect behind the murder of Eric Maigo.
In a statement on Friday, September 22, DCI revealed that they had recovered clothes believed to have been worn by Ann Adhiambo on the day Maigo was murdered, in a wooden shack in Bombolulu village in Kibera.
Adhiambo was arrested on Tuesday, September 2, in Kibera and was taken to Kilimani Police Station. She was charged at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi on Wednesday, September 27.
The court ruled that Adhiambo be detained for 21 days since the investigators handling the case requested more time to further process her.
