Boda boda rider murdered in Limuru

A 34-year-old boda boda rider was killed at a car wash in Kwambira trading centre, Limuru, Kiambu.

His motorcycle was found abandoned on the other side of the road, about 700 metres.

Police said he appeared to have been beaten badly by the killers.

They say the body appeared to have been hit severally with a blunt object and stones, which were scattered near his body.

A rider Joseph Gathuru said the motorcycle sparkplug cap had been removed, an indicator that the killers tried rob him the motorcycle.

“We suspect robbers tried to rob him the motorcycle, but he unplugged and threw away the cap. The motorcycle’s engine cannot start without a sparkplug. The thugs had to leave it,” he said.

Voice of Men and Children Network national chairman Bishop James Njenga decried that motorcycle theft was silently coming to the region.

He called upon the police to lay firm strategies of dealing with insecurity, to keep off thugs planning to start robbing riders their motorcycles.

“Some of these crimes where a person is killed had gone away. However, the manner in which the young man was killed is scaring and tells that security is not all that well,” Njenga said.

Limuru subcounty police commander Eillen Mola said they have launched investigations into the murder of the rider.

She said they have intensified day and night patrols across the whole subcounty, saying they want to establish the motive of the riders killers.

The body was taken to Uphome Funeral Home where an autopsy will be conducted.

(Edited by Bilha Makokha)