Nakuru: Teenager Accused Of Killing 4 People Appears In Court To Face Charges

• Ezekiel Mwangi was arraigned at the Nakuru High Court to face murder charges after a series of killings in Rongai
• The 19-year-old is accused of killing four people, three female adults and a minor, on diverse dates in July and August this year
• The state prosecution strongly objected to the suspect's request for bond, and the court set the case up for mention on October 15

Eli Odaga, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

A 19-year-old young man is in police custody in connection with the heinous murder of four people in Rongai, Nakuru county.

Ezekiel Sakwa Mwangi, also known as Kwame, was presented at the Nakuru High Court on Thursday, September 19, to face charges of murder.

How many people were killed in Rongai

The teenager was apprehended in August this year, a month after he was suspected to have undertaken a series of murders.

He is accused of assaulting and killing a five-year-old girl, Alice Ayuma, before dumping the body in a maize plantation in the Mwangaza area.

The little girl's body bore marks of a brutal assault, presumably with a rungu.

Later, the young man attacked and killed Virginia Njeri Mwangi at the Menengai prayer cave.

In Kalyet village, 34-year-old Florence Mueni Mwalimu was struck down, and her body discarded in a bush.

Another woman, Vellah Moraa Mogambi, was killed on the railway line at Baraka Estate.

Kwame denied all the charges in his name.

The state prosecution objected to the accused person's request for a bond, and the court set October 15 as the date for mentioning the case.

Kwame would not be the first young Kenyan to be accused of multiple murders.

How Bungoma young man ended lives of Nairobi minors

In 2021, Masten Wanjala, a Bungoma native, was apprehended in connection with the murder of 13 children in Nairobi.

Upon his arrest, the young man, who was later killed by irate members of the public, led police to where the decomposing bodies of his victims were.

One of the bodies was found dumped near Kabete Approved School, while the other was collected from a thicket near Spring Valley in Westlands, all in Nairobi county.

The suspect confessed to killing and burying the minors in shallow graves in different parts of Nairobi.

Proofreading by Otukho Jackson, a multimedia journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke