This archive report was first published on 1 December 2019.
Published on December 1, 2019, a senior anti-terror police officer who led investigations into the DusitD2 hotel terror attack has died under unclear circumstances at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) shortly after arriving from Japan.
Chief Inspector Monica Wambui Githaiga had traveled from Japan through Dubai and Addis Ababa aboard Ethiopian Airlines when the incident occurred, as reported by The Standard.
She had complained of feeling unwell and was attended to by port medics at Dubai before being allowed to board the flight to Nairobi.
Upon arrival at JKIA, she was complaining of chest pains and dizziness before being attended to at the airport clinic.
According to a police report filed at JKIA, she started complaining of dizziness and chest pains, then began vomiting and was attended to at the Port Health Clinic, but unfortunately, she passed away.
The cause of the officer's death is yet to be established, with her body moved to the Chiromo Mortuary, Nairobi, awaiting autopsy.
As the lead investigator in the Dusit D2 Hotel attack on 14 Riverside Drive, Nairobi, on January 15, in which 21 people were killed, Githaiga had narrated how one of the suspects received KSh 9 million from South Africa, which was later withdrawn through M-Pesa and a bank in Eastleigh.
