Woman Unknowingly Hires Policemen as Assassins to Kill Her Husband
Faith Wairimu Maina
Faith Wairimu Maina, a Kenya mother of two pleaded guilty in court for having plotted to kill her husband, John Muthee Guama, on the 17th June, in the Zimmerman area of Nairobi county.
Faith Wairimu Maina when she appeared before a Nairobi court on June 19, 2013 charged with conspiring to kill her husband John Muthee Guama. A woman has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill her husband by hiring gangsters who turned out to be police officers from the Flying Squad Unit. Faith Wairimu Maina admitted before senior principal magistrate Peter Ndwiga that she wanted to get rid of John Muthee Guama, her husband of 16 years and father of their two children, as a result of “long-running domestic problems”. “It is true I conspired to kill him because he has been beating me and not paying school fees for the children.
According to the facts of the case read by Chief Inspector Daniel Thuku, the couple had been experiencing domestic wrangles over allegations that Mr Guama was having an affair with a woman identified as Njeri Waamba.
Fearing that he could leave her for another woman, she hatched a plan to eliminate him through a hit squad so that she could be left with the family property.She approached an acquaintance known as Mama Kevo with a view of hiring the hit squad, who in turn approached a Mr Wilson Mwangi. “Mr Mwangi immediately informed the officer in-charge of Flying Squad who then assigned officers Moses Gitwahi, Joseph Langat and Peter Nderitu to carry out the investigations,” said Mr Thuku.
The three officers agreed to pose as gangsters for hire after which Mwangi introduced them to her on June 17. They arranged to meet at Wairimu’s food kiosk at Zimmerman estate where she told the officers that she had earlier paid Sh40,000 to another group of killers who failed to accomplish the mission and disappeared with the money.
She then demanded to know if the “killers” were armed for the assignment and was shown an official gun.
