Detectives have launched a manhunt for Denis Karani Gachoki, suspected to have had a hand in the Monday afternoon’s murder of Samuel Mugoh Muvota in Mirema, Kasarani.
The suspect, who Directorate of Criminal Investigations says is armed and dangerous, is suspected to be in possession of a firearm that was snatched from a stupefied Police officer, after a round of drinks at a popular joint in Mombasa, in November, 2020.
Efforts by detectives to arrest him have been futile since the thug who is well loaded, influences rogue cops who tip him off once an operation for his arrest has been launched.
In one occasion, Gachoki’s accomplice was texted minutes before his arrest, throwing a spanner in the works of a meticulous operation that had taken months to put together.
The sleuths have since gathered that Gachoki, recently fell out with his boss Muvota over sharing of proceeds from their Pishori trade, and beautiful women who would first pay with their flesh before being enlisted to the mafia-style organization.
This among other beefs are suspected to have led to a bitter fallout leading to Monday’s killing of Muvota, who has left behind seven grieving widows and countless children.
Forensic Cyber detectives picked Gachoki’s last signal deep inside burnt forest, hours after the murder. The suspect could have crossed the border to a neighbouring country.
Meanwhile, detectives have unmasked some of the faces behind the dangerous ‘Pishori’ administrators.
The women who are experts in stupefying revelers at popular drinking spots mainly target middle aged to older men whom they suspect to have fat bank accounts.
Going by the brands of the drinks one has ordered to how one is dressed, they can easily pick out a Mubaba with a good bank balance, from a crowd of revelers.
Most of them have been arrested before but Muvota always came to their aid by approaching the complainants and refunding them back their money.
However, most of these cases often went unreported since the drugged men are mainly married and respectable people in society who wouldn’t wish to let out the skeletons in their cupboards.
With Muvota gone after the bitter fallout with his second in command who is currently at large, the Pishori empire has been left without a leader.
Reports indicate that most of the women have left the city in droves to their rural areas, from where they are monitoring how things unfold.
DCI has asked bar owners to be on the lookout for suspicious women, out to spike drinks in entertainment spots and report to authorities immediately.
