This archive report was first published on 5 November 2021.
On November 5, 2021, the Nation reported that Onesmus Kimani Ngunjiri, Bahati MP, had denied any involvement in the murder of conservationist Joannah Stutchbury in July.
Stutchbury was ambushed by armed gunmen and shot dead on July 16 outside her residence in Kiambu.
Ngunjiri vowed to sue Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko for linking him to the gruesome killing, claiming it was unfair to list him among the suspects without concrete evidence.
"I was not in any way involved in the murder of the environmentalist as claimed. I have never plotted harm on anyone. It was not fair for Tobiko to list me among the suspects without concrete evidence simply because we disagree politically," he told the Nation.
Ngunjiri claimed he was in the United States for two months at the time of the murder, and questioned how he could have planned it without leaving a trail of evidence.
