First and foremost may Samuel Wanjiru rest in peace. However, I think he took so much for granted especially his involvement with a bunch of look-alike women (must have been his taste), who have definitely contributed to his early death. He made too much money and is said to have invested well in real-estate and in blue chip stocks. He was also generous and before he met his death, had entertained friends and relatives to the tune of 13,000Ksh ‘kanywaji’.
His biggest weakness must have been meeting women (mpango wa kando and chips funga) who might only have been attracted to his moeny. Being a resident of Nyahururu, a small sleepy town, his money revolutionized the environment when he built a palatial home for himself, a decent home for his mother, and another for a woman claiming to be his wife called Wacera, with whom he has a 7 months old child.
His mother claims Wacera was the official wife, while Njeri, whose face was shown a lot since last December during their domstic problems that led to Wanjiru’s court appearances, including assaulting his watchman with an illegally owned AK-47 rifle, claims to be his wfe. We have now learnt that although they had two children together, he had not paid dowry to her family, a signature of marriage in the African tradition.
OK four women have now been officially linked to Wanjiru. Njeri, the well-known face with two children; Wacera, supported by his mother and claimed to be his wife and lives in another house in Nyahururu. In Nakuru, there is another 5 months pregnant one claiming to be his wife too. The one caught in the bedroom by Njeri, Jane Nduta (the waitress and mpango wa kando), says she had been his girlfried for three months, and was aware he had been married.
Did Wanjiru fall accidentally from the balcony of his Muthaiga home to his death? It is noted he was fully drank. Could that have clouded his judgment as he tried to chase Njeri who had locked him inside with Nduta? His mother claims blood had been cleaned from the bedroom floor and then the body thrown over the balcony. Could Njeri, Nduta and the watchman have conspired to dispatch him to his death? The watchman claims not to have seen Nduta inside the vehicle as Wanjiru drove through the gates. Wanjiru’s mother claims Njeri did not inform her of her son’s death until the following day. The story keeps changing because Njeri claims she never saw the body until the next day in the mortuary, while earlier she claimed she had brought the police back only to find him bleeding.
Amazingly, Nduta wouldn’t mind getting a share of Wanjiru’s money if it will be divided later. Wanjiru used to keep a lot of moeny in various currencies inside the home. It is claimed the police took it. Whom did they give it to? There was no forensic investigation to understand what took place and it is only when Parliamentarians have demanded a Ministerial statement that hopefully something can be done. The mother wants an autopsy before the funeral. Wanjiru had an electronic surveillance system, yet for some reason, it was not working that night…Oops!
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Wanjiru’s mother claims son was murdered in bedroom
By JAMES MUNYEKI
The mysterious death of Olympic champion Samuel Wanjiru took a new twist on Tuesday with the mother reading foul play in the issue.
Mrs Ann Wanjiru alleged that her son was killed in his bedroom and his body dumped on the ground to conceal evidence.
She claimed that the death was as a result of his family problems and people who want a share in the son’s property.
She denied claims that Wanjiru was found with another woman in his home.
Ann said police should conduct further investigation by thoroughly questioning the wife Triza Njeri.
The claims contradicted earlier reports that the athletics champion fell accidentally from the balcony of his Muthaiga residence in Nyahururu while pursuing his wife after an argument.
It had been alleged that Wanjiru had been caught with another woman in his bedroom by the wife at around 12.30 am on Sunday night.
But the mother rubbished the claims saying this was just a gimmick to hide the truth.
“I wonder why the police and the wife are giving false statements concerning my son’s death. I believe my son did not commit suicide nor did he fall accidentally but he was killed,” she claimed.
The mother who had called a press conference at her house said there were some blood spots in Wanjiru’s bedroom indicating that he was killed there and his body dumped on the floor.
“Why did they wash the blood stains in his bedroom if the killing was not done there? Where was the blood from?” she posed.
She added that a blunt object might have been used to hit him at the back of his head where he had injuries.
Ann wondered how the night guard did not see her son entering the compound in the company of a lady Jane Nduta as it was reported.
She further claimed that it was Njeri who had called for an urgent meeting with Wanjiru who was by then training in Eldoret.
That, she said, prompted her son to travel late in the night to meet the wife who was in the house.
“My son called me on Sunday during the day and informed me that he was due to travel and meet Njeri at the house. How come then that he met his death at a time when the wife called for such a meeting,” she said.
On which of the three women was recognised by the family, Ann said it was Mary Wacera who had legally been married by the athlete as he had even paid her dowry.
Introducing her to the press, she said that it was Wacera who had been taking care of her and she was the one every family member knew of.
“As a family, we know of Wacera who has been taking care of me. Njeri was just a girl friend,” she noted.
Speaking at the same press conference, Wacera who has a nine month old baby said they had lived with the athlete since 2009.
Wacera who is a police officer said they lived together with Wanjiru as husband and wife and he had even paid her dowry.
She now wants Wanjiru’s property be allocated to her so that she can bring up the young Ann Wanjiru.
The move came barely after Njeri had dismissed claims that Wanjiru was married to the other two women.
Speaking to The Standard Tuesday morning, Njeri said she did not know of any other women and demanded that all Wanjiru’s wealth be left to her.
Efforts by The Standard to reach Nyandarua OCPD Jasper Ombati for further clarification on the fresh claims were futile, as he did not pick up his phone.
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000035321&cid=4&ttl=Wanjiru's%20mother%20claims%20son%20was%20murdered%20in%20bedroom
Mother delays Samuel Wanjiru burial
Thursday, 19 May 2011 00:06 BY WANJOHI GAKIO
Police trying to piece together what happened before Olympic marathon championfell or jumped to his death drew a blank when they viewed the closed circuit television recording of Monday night.
The investigation team led by Nyandarua police boss Jasper Ombati and his CID counterpart Isaac Onyango said the CCTV was on standby mode and therefore did not record any events that occured on Monday night.
The CCTV cameras are connected to a monitor which us located in the master bedroom which is on the upper floor of the house. One of the cameras is located next to the balcony from where Wanjiru plunged to his death.
There are several other motion-sensor cameras in the house as well as outside with one located at the gate to record anyone entering or passing by the gate and another facing into the compound. Sources said the CCTV is always switched off whenever Wanjiru and his wife are home and switched on when they leave.
The setback is not the only one as Wanjiru’s mother Anna Wanjiru insisted that the police were refusing to follow through on her claims that her son was murdered.
Anna Wanjiru, who said her son will not be buried until the cause of death is established accused the police of being reluctant to establish whose blood had been spattered on the grills of the bedroom and the floor. “It does not matter how long it takes for the investigations to be done but we have decided that he will not be buried until we know the cause of death. We want to be told the truth. Why was there blood in the bedroom and the grills at the balcony. Why are the police unwilling to give us an explanation,” she said.
Her press conference was interrupted by a woman seer who only identified herself as Miriam and said she had travelled from Naivasha as she had been directed by God to deliver an urgent message to Wanjiru family.
She entered the house and mumbled some prayers and left when she realised that Wanjiru’s wife was not present. She then went Wanjiru’s mother’s house nearby interrupted the press conference and refused to shake hands saying the message was written on her right hand and would be erased if she shook hands.
A bemused Mama Wanjiru and other relatives looked on as the woman proclaimed that the Oplympic champion had been caused by people out to fleece him off his wealth but God had plans of forgiving his sins and restoring glory to the troubled family. She said Wanjiru had only one wife whom she did not identify and urged the family to ignore the other women who have come forward and claimed to be his wife.
`Only after this did the woman shake hands with everyone present. She was served with food, ate and left without uttering another word. Mama Wanjiru disowned claims by a Kiambaa man, Peter Kimani Kirihinya that he was the father of her son and was her estranged husband. Kimani has said he would fight to have Wanjiru buried at Kiambaa which is his home and where he was born. Mama Wanjiru said she single handedly brought up her children and would not welcome anyone coming to lay claim on her son.
The bar maid Grace Nduta who was with Wanjiru at the time his death said she was in the bedroom and did not see what happened. She said she and Wanjiru had been lovers for a very long time and used to meet in various hotels in the town. “On this night he told me that his wife was not at home and we went there. She surprised us when she came home and they started quarreling. She locked the door leading down the stairs and left. He started shouting at her from the balcony and ordered me to go back inside. I heard a scream and when l came out,l asked the watchman what had happened and he told me to look down. That’s when l saw him lying there,” she said.
Wanjiru is my son, says ex military man
BY BERNARD MOMANYI
KABARNET, Kenya, May 19 – A retired military man has now emerged to claim he is the biological father of the late Samuel Wanjiru, the Olympic marathon champion who died in a fall from the balcony of his home in Nyahururu on Sunday night.
Elijah Kipng’etich Chebon, 50, who formerly worked at the Kenya Air Force base in Nanyuki told Capital News that he is the one who sired the athletics hero 24 years ago, at a small village near the William Woods Conservancy.
“Whoever wants to claim that he is the biological father of the late Wanjiru is a liar. I am Wanjiru’s dad, even his mother can attest to that,” Mr Chebon told Capital News in an interview from Sumeiyon village, Temwai Location-some six kilometres from Kabarnet town.
Mr Chebon told Capital News that he has a family with five other children back in the village and that he had informed all of them about the “other son who became a famous athletics star in the world.”
Mr Chebon said he has two sons and three daughters “but when you count Wanjiru, then they are actually three sons. I am very proud of him and that is why I made my family and all my other relatives and friends here aware about him long before he died.”
“They all know about it… my wife know it too well and they have no problem with it. In fact we have been watching him whenever he is running or when he is being given a heroic homecoming ceremony in Nairobi and Nyahururu,” he said, confessing that he had made unsuccessful efforts “to meet my son for several years since 2009.”
On Tuesday, another man emerged in Kiambu and claimed that he is the one who brought up Wanjiru, although he was not his biological father.
“I have no problem with this man from Kiambu who is saying he brought my son up because he admitted publicly that he is not his biological father. I want the world to know that I am Wanjiru’s biological father,” he said, recalling how he dated Wanjiru’s mother between December 1985 and January 1986.
“We were only together for a short period of time, because she was residing at a village near the camp but they were displaced before our relationship would prosper, but she was already pregnant,” he added.
Recalling vividly, how he tried to reach Wanjiru’s mother through a landline telephone number for several months thereafter, Mr Chebon said he failed to reach her even after learning that she had moved to Naromoru.
Asked how then he came to learn that Wanjiru was his son, having lost touch with the mother even before the Olympic marathon champion was born, Mr Chebon said: “I was so delighted when one day soon after the Olympic marathon of 2008, I saw the boy being welcomed back home and I saw his mother hugging him. That is when I knew that he was the son I sired because when you look at him, he just looks like me. There is no doubt about that.”
Since then, Mr Chebon said he sought his contacts from athletes in Rift Valley and tried unsuccessfully to reach his son but he only promised to call him back whenever he called or left a text message on his phone.
“I think it is because I used to call between 8 and 9 pm, I have now come to know that that was the time he used to enjoy himself with friends in the bar. After trying to call him severally, at one point he barred my calls and I never managed to speak to him, but I did send him messages to make him aware that I am his biological father,” he said.
“I have never even managed to talk to his mother, I have her number but whenever I call her phone is either off or busy,” he said.
Displaying what could pass as a good leadership attribute from an elderly man of his calibre; Mr Chebon told Capital News that he had been sending Wanjiru text messages to advise him on how to solve the wrangles between him and his wife Trizah Njeri.
“I used to see them on TV and hear stories that there is a court case about a gun, and that they had separated with his wife, and I took it upon myself to send him messages to advise him,” he said, “but Wanjiru has never called me back or replied my text messages.”
Regarding Wanjiru’s death, Mr Chebon said he was planning to travel to Nyahururu to meet Wanjiru’s mother and other relatives so as to participate in the burial arrangements, although the plans were temporarily halted by a Nakuru court for two weeks.
“It is so difficult here in the village because I don’t have money, but I have been able to speak to some of my friends here who have vehicles, and there one who has agreed to facilitate my travel arrangements so that I can convey my condolence to the family in Nyahururu. I should be going there next week,” he said.
Wanjiru’s wealth
Asked if he is also eyeing Wanjiru’s millions which have become a subject of controversy between the deceased’s widow, his mother and three other women who claim to have cohabited with him, Mr Chebon said “it is a taboo in our [Kalenjin] community to talk about one’s wealth even before he is buried.”
“When I travel to Nyahururu to console the family, those are some of the issues I intend to raise with Wanjiru’s mother so that I can offer fatherly advice,” he said.
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/Kenyanews/Wanjiru-is-my-son%2C-says-ex-military-man-12860.html
Turns out Wanjiru’s biological father is a Kalenjin. No wonder his successful athletics career-excellent running genes. I also suspect foul play.
Poor Wanjiru!!!I wish someone could sit down and adviced you.It’s sad to loose such a young person in the society.Will this be a lesson to other womanisers and alcholists of dangers they face living wreckless lives in the name of”Enjoying Life.”I hope it wil be a wake up call.
Details of marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru�s death continue to emerge four days after his death. His family and friends gathered in his Nyahururu home to view CCTV footage in a bid to retrace his last steps. Particulars of his whereabouts on the fateful night of his death are also becoming clearer as police continue in their efforts to piece together the last moments leading to his death.
http://www.ktnkenya.tv/new/?page_id=1&id=2000035580
Questions The Police Must Answer on Wanjiru’s Death .
Monday, 23 May 2011 00:10 BY MIGUNA MIGUNA . BESIDES the speculations, the alleged lurid love triangles, the ghost “fathers” emerging from darkness after the occurrence of a tragedy, and the apparent disputes between Samuel Kamau Wanjiru’s mother and his “wife”, Teresia Njeri, there are numerous and crucial questions the Kenya Police must answer before we allow them to continue peddling the dubious “suicide” story.
Based on media reports, Wanjiru died at his home in Muthaiga Estate in Nyahururu on Sunday May 15 shortly before midnight. It is further claimed that when he “plunged to his death,” there was a watchman at the gate and a barmaid named Jane Nduta. According to the bizarre story both the media and the police are peddling, Wanjiku “jumped” or “plunged” to his death as he was chasing Njeri, who had fled with his house keys after locking him and Nduta in the house.
That is bizarre beyond belief. Try imagining that a bit. Wanjiru “sneaks” a barmaid into his house with the watchman only seeing Wanjiru. Although “very drunk” (according to the barmaid, “too drunk to defend himself”), he still managed to drive to his home. What was he supposed to defend himself from? Wanjiru’s coach has said that he (Wanjiru) drove himself in the vehicle he had earlier borrowed from the coach in Eldoret. This is an Olympic champion who is said to own more than five expensive vehicles! Was he traveling incognito? Why?
Apparently, the watchman opens the house door for Wanjiru (we are not sure with which pair of keys). No mention of Nduta, yet. On his way back to the gate, the watchman meets “a woman entering the compound through the pedestrian walkway” and a Toyota Land Cruiser coming through the main gate. The mysterious woman is not identified. No information is given about the driver or owner of the Land Cruiser. Were there passengers in the Land Cruiser? And who opened the “pedestrian walk-way” for the unidentified woman? Who opened the main gate for the Land Cruiser? Did the unidentified woman and those in the Land Cruiser enter the house? How?
Both the police and media report that Njeri arrived at Wanjiru’s home after 11.30 p.m. She is reported in the media claiming that she had traveled from Nairobi that day. Any proof? But the watchman hasn’t been reported spotting her arrival earlier that day. Strangely, she hadn’t done groceries, nor taken out food from the many joints on the way to Nyahururu. Later – so she claims – she left Wanjiru’s house that evening at a time yet to be disclosed and went to “have supper” at an unnamed “friend’s house” in the “Muthaiga neighbourhood.” Are there records of telephone calls between the recently reconciled couple, or between them and others? Despite the tragic death of a very high profile Kenyan, Njeri hasn’t disclosed the identity of the “friends” that hosted her that night. Why the mystery?
Njeri is reported to have made her way into the house sometime after 11:30 p.m. She used “her” spare keys. She then takes medication and proceeds upstairs where she confronts Wanjiru, who is “in bed with another woman.” A “fight” ensues. No injuries (remember Wanjiru is too drunk to defend himself?) Shortly, Njeri storms out, running. But not before she “remembers” to lock Wanjiru and his “lover” in the bedroom, upstairs.
Unable to open the door and “pursue her,” Wanjiru decides to “plunge,” head first, onto the concrete below. This is the most incredible story I have heard since the O.J. Simpson murder saga. Yet, the police and the media have bought Njeri’s version, hook, line and sinker. Why?
If Wanjiru plunged as described, how come the injury is to the back of his head and not his forehead? Did he somersault? When people jump, do they fall on their hands and knees or on the back of their heads? Was he pushed? Could he have been killed there or elsewhere before being dropped from the balcony?
How could Njeri, as she was “running away”, have failed to see or hear the loud thud that inevitably would accompany such a fall? How about Nduta? How could she have heard and seen nothing? How could she remain seated on the bed with all the commotion around her? Did she try to call for help? Why not? And given the fact that Wanjiru had accessed the house using a different pair of keys from Njeri’s, why couldn’t he use the same keys to open the door Njeri had locked? So far, nobody has claimed that Njeri had confiscated Wanjiru’s keys.
It has also been reported that Njeri was speaking with some senior police officer on her mobile phone as soon as she exited the house. What were they talking about? Why didn’t she report the “fall,” which clearly occurred before she allegedly “left” the compound? Why is it reported that she didn’t know that Wanjiru had fallen and died until the police told her the same at the Nyahururu Police Station. And just out of curiosity; how far is that police station from Wanjiru’s house? How long would it have taken Njeri to run/walk there?
Finally, Wanjiru’s mother has made allegations that her son was killed before being thrown from the balcony of his house. She also claims that she saw blood in her son’s bedroom when she arrived at the scene but that Njeri washed it away afterwards. Are those claims true? Have they been investigated? How come the police have not been able to retrieve any images from the CCTV cameras? Were the cameras tampered with? What did the neighbours hear?
The police made no attempts to secure the scene. They have unreasonably insisted that Wanjiru either committed suicide or jumped to his death even before an autopsy has been done.
Kenyans deserve to know more.
The writer is the PM’s adviser for coalition affairs. The views expressed here are his own.
The battle for the late marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru’s estate intensified yesterday, with Judy Wambui, the woman who came out claiming also to be pregnant with the deceased’s child, obtaining a court order to have a DNA test done on Wanjiru’s body to ascertain the paternity of the child she is carrying. She asked the court to grant that the samples be extracted from body of the late Wanjiru during the post-mortem scheduled for today.
News from the grapevine:
There are new revelations on how Samuel Wanjiru met his death in Nyahururu on Saturday morning. According to a close family friend, Wanjiru was lured to his death in what appears to be a well coordinated murder plot that left everything look like the olympic champion committed suicide.
On that fateful night, Wanjiru travelled to Nyahururu to meet his wife Njeri to discuss family matters not knowing that there were people at his home waiting for him. The strangers, two men and a woman had been hired to carry out the hit crime and hide all evidence. It is said the woman was hired to make it look like the athlete came back home with her. According to Wanjiru’s mother, there was blood in the bedroom and on the floor leading to the balcony. She continued to say that there was no way her son could have brought another woman at home knowing that his ‘wife’ was waiting for him. She is blaming Triza Njeri with whom the athlete has two children for the death of her son and says that she is not his wife.
New evidence show that after Wanjiru was locked in the bedroom, Trizia Njeri handed over the key to the killers who after accomplishing their mission, dropped the body from the balcony to make it look like he had committed suicide. It is after Wanjiru was confirmed dead that Trizia Njeri called the police to complain and ask for ‘protection’.
Mama Wa Wanjiru is in Police custody >She has been arrested fo demanding that His son should not be burried in a hurry before Investigation are complete>There are some Money devils who wanted wa wanjiru to be burried in a hurry hence Money worshipping dogs whose intrests in this case is Money (wa-wanjirus Money>http://www.kbc.co.ke/news.asp?nid=70574
Mama Wanjiru is Right !Why do these other Trizah Poor Family want to burry Kamau like a dog And in a hurry without waiting drs& Police Report>Mama hanna is taking Laws in her hands becouse the Govt of Kenya is corrupt to the core! where is the Govt? Mama wanjiru fight them And The Police Must release her scott-free>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tokm53Mv9vk&feature=player_embedded#at=49
Another Wa Wa-nmjiru Jameni >Kikuyu na Pesa > here two Kikuyu lovers of one man fighting for Money beicha /pengar-Money >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qfo1-S3-m8&feature=relmfu
Maina Njenga marries Samuel Wanjiru’s wife
Monday, 16 July 2012 – Word has it that a controversial politician is now living with a former Olympic champion’s wife. Fingers point out to Njenga who is said to be wooing Wanjiru’s wife after the champion passed away last year.
His motive was not viewed as genuine as most thought that the politician was after the wealth that the widow acquired following her late husband’s wealth.
The two are said to have had an affair for over 8 months. Njeri- the late Wanjiru’s wife has been accompanying Maina in his campaign tours. We had earlier on reported when the two were seen together getting cozy.
Apparently, the marriage was arranged and executed by Maina’s aides to avoid scuffles and mixed reactions from the public.
The two now have a couple of business chains in Athi River, Narok and Nanyuki guarded under tight security. They are said to be living in a posh mansion in a leafy suburb in Nairobi.
The Kenyan DAILY POST