Love, prey and murder: Itumbi paints Maribe as innocent

Digital Communications Director at the Presidential Strategic Communications Unit (PSCU), Dennis Itumbi has come to the defence of embattled Citizen TV news anchor and political reporter Jacque Maribe.

In a lengthy post rich in love poetry and allusion on Facebook, Itumbi craftily distanced the journalist from any involvement in the heinous murder of former Nation Media Group (NMG) employee Monica Kimani.

Maribe is the fiancée to Joseph Irungu Kuria AKA Jowie, who is the central suspect in the murder of Ms. Kimani who was found dead with her throat slit in a bathtub at her house in Lamuria Apartments, Kilimani Estate, Nairobi County on Thursday evening on September 20.

“Let me comment on the issues facing my good friend Jacque Maribe. I have spoken to her and she will obviously tell her story to the police. I have not asked for those details. I am certain the DCI will provide the answers and whoever committed the crime will certainly face justice in the fullness of time,” said Itumbi in the highly contextualized post.

Maribe was grilled at the Directorate of Criminal Invesigations (DCI) headquarters on Kiambu Road. The car which Irungu was driving on that night which is registered to Maribe was also dusted for prints on September 27.

Itumbi in the William Shakespeare-esque post painted Maribe as an innocent lady who feel prey to the villain, in this case Irungu.

“From where I sit Jacque fell in love with a guy that connected her with her whole being. We all fall in love with strangers and as we grow in the connection we learn each other. If she does not keep time, you teach her with consentual reward and punishment. If he prefers to throw his socks everywhere you develop a way to end the bachelor thrill with a similar scheme, sometimes it works, sometimes it fails,” said the PSCU Digital Communications Director.

Itumbi added, “Jacque, in my view is the reflection of a girl next door, who is in love. What perfection and satisfaction to feel like you are a part of another being. To have inner wings that you flap in awesomeness because your emotions are on a high only described by a combination of adjectives,”

He also took time to send his condolences to Monica’s family saying, “All I can say, is God strech his hand and comfort you,”

Ms. Kimani’s requiem mass was held at Mount Kenya University (MKU) grounds in Thika on September 27 where emotions ran high.

Her distraught father Paul Ngarama urged investigative agencies to speed up probing the matter saying those who killed her child must face the law.

Monica will be buried on Friday September 28 at her family’s farm in Gilgil, Nakuru County.