{"id":10821,"date":"2021-07-28T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=10821"},"modified":"2021-07-28T07:15:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T07:15:01","slug":"innocent-makokha-the-killer-of-chrizo-ambani-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=10821","title":{"rendered":"University student Innocent Makokha the killer of Chrizo Ambani arrested."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The lover of Kiriri Women\u2019s University student, Christine Ambani, who was murdered in a guest room in Githurai, Kiambu County, on July 12, has been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Innocent Kalio Makokha was arrested by special service detectives at 2am on Tuesday, July 27, at his rented house in Chokaa area in Kayole, Nairobi County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said Makokha \u201chad been on the run since the day he [allegedly] killed Ambani\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"909\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kalio-909x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10825\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kalio.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?attachment_id=10825\" class=\"wp-image-10825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kalio-909x1024.jpg 909w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kalio-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kalio-768x866.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kalio-1363x1536.jpg 1363w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kalio.jpg 1817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Innocent Makokha allegedly killed Christine Ambani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A postmortem conducted on Ambani on July 19 at the City Mortuary indicated she died of excessive bleeding after she was stabbed in the neck and back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So barbaric was the stab that the knife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/nairobi\/article\/2001418841\/how-christine-ambani-died-painfully-postmortem-shows\">ripped through her neck and protruded in the front part.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 12, Ambani, who had visited a friend at Mwihoko, said she was planning to meet her lover, Innocent, at Githurai Town, 15 kilometres away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambani, 23, left her friend\u2019s place at around 10am, promising to return by mid-day. That was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/nairobi\/article\/2001418509\/abducted-at-730pm-killed-by-3am-puzzle-surrounding-githurai-womans-disappearance\">the last time she was seen alive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"618\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ambani-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"10822\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ambani-2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?attachment_id=10822\" class=\"wp-image-10822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ambani-2.jpg 618w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ambani-2-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cImmediately after Christine and Innocent met in Githurai Town, they booked themselves into a guest room in an arrangement that, according to the management, was only going to last a few hours,\u201d the DCI said on Tuesday in a statement posted on their Twitter page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities said Innocent and Christine settled on such an arrangement to allow Christine, a Third-Year Bachelor of Purchasing and Supplies Management student, return to school and sit her exam that afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMakokha emerged from the room later and topped up the earlier paid amount to last them for the entire night,\u201d the DCI said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say Maokha allegedly killed Ambani that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambani\u2019s body was discovered by the guest house\u2019s security guard, who alerted police. Her remains were taken to the City Mortuary by police and booked as \u201cunknown person\u201d at 3am on July 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities say the suspect, Makokha, is a Bachelor of Special Needs Education student at Mt. Kenya University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter [allegedly] committing the act, Makokha took over Christine\u2019s phone and logged into Christine\u2019s family WhatsApp group,\u201d the DCI stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPosing as Christine, he sent a message asking family members to send her Sh87,000 claiming that she wanted to refund her boyfriend (Makokha) the money he had spent to help her settle in college.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities say the suspect will be arraigned for Ambani\u2019s murder on today, July 27, promising to revisit the past cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambani and Makokha dated for two years, beginning 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine Ambani, known to her friends as Chrizo, was buried at her parents&#8217; ancestral home in Musanda Village, Mumias West Sub-County, Kakamega County last Saturday, July 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lover of Kiriri Women\u2019s University student, Christine Ambani, who was murdered in a guest room in Githurai, Kiambu County, on July 12, has been arrested. Innocent Kalio Makokha was arrested by special service detectives at 2am on Tuesday, July 27, at his rented house in Chokaa area in Kayole, Nairobi County. Police said Makokha &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10827,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions\/10827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}