It has emerged that the killers of university student Christine Ambani demanded ransom – even after they had killed the poor girl.
“We believe someone wanted her dead. She wasn’t abducted for ransom, but to be killed. The time taken to end her life was too brief for people who wanted ransom. It was a plot planned over time,” a DCI detective told The Standard.
The money was not the motive – but why punish the family further after taking away their loved one? That is the question many are grappling with.
According to a friend, Christine who was a student at Kiriri Women’s University, had confided to her about meeting her ex-boyfriend that Monday. That’s the day the 23-year-old girl went missing and was never seen alive again. Her body was found at a parking lot in Githurai and taken to City Mortuary by police at 3am on Tuesday, July 13.
Christine who was a student at Kiriri Women’s University. Photo/Courtesy
The body was registered as “unknown”
Meanwhile, the alleged abductors took their sweet to torment a family that had no idea they had just lost a daughter.
“A person who claimed that my sister owed him money texted us, saying he and his friends had detained her,”her sister Ruth Ambani told The Standard.
“He even sent us a screenshot of mobile money messages, which showed he transferred Sh87,000 to my sister’s mobile wallet. I believe the message was fabricated because the transfer charge was Sh300, and not Sh105, which is the transfer cost for money ranging from Sh50,001 to Sh150,000,” said Ruth, adding: “Something was not adding up.”
I don’t know who wanted my sister dead
“The person, whom we were in communication with, sent us a picture of Christine in an untidy room. The clothes she was wearing that Monday, were the same ones she was in when we viewed her body in the morgue mid this week,” said Ruth, adding: “I still don’t know who wanted my sister dead.”
“What I know is that she went to meet a male friend whom I’m familiar with. However, I am not sure if the meeting indeed took place. In our communication, she contradicted herself on several occasions,” her friend told the media.
Why would you kill a young woman – and then proceed to demand money from her family?