Police question Nakumatt staff over senior manager's murder

Police on Friday morning questioned Nakumatt Supermarkets employees over the shooting death of one of the company’s senior managers.

Detectives from the Makadara Divisional Crime Investigation Office and OCPD Nehemiah Langat were at Nakumatt headquarters off Mombasa Road.

Mr Langat said they interrogated some employees and other managers, saying “we believe that they can … tell us a number of things that might help us trace the culprits. We are also trying to establish his last communications.”

Police identified the manager as James Karanja Mwangi. He was shot twice in the head and once in the chest shortly after leaving the company’s offices.

He was in charge of internal audit.

Mr Langat said the gunmen on a motorcycle rode towards Mombasa Road after the shooting without stealing anything.

“We found three spent cartridges on the scene. His phone and wallet were in the car and to me, if the killers were robbers, they would have taken his belongings so easily” Mr Langat said.

Mr Mwangi's colleagues at Nakumatt, who were still shaken by the incident, said the young manager was calm during the day.

“He was a very young and hardworking, brilliant lawyer and accountant. We are very saddened by his loss,” said one colleague.

Cases of crimes committed by thugs on motorcycles have been on the rise, with police asking residents of Nairobi to be on the lookout.

On February 7, the driver of a Kenya Airways employee was shot dead on Bunyala Road.

Police say the driver was dropping off the KQ employee when the gang struck.