New details have emerged on Jennings Orlando, the General Service Unit (GSU) officer who was arrested on Thursday in connection with the murder of business woman Monica Kimani.
Standard reported that the 31 year-old was highly trained member of the GSU’s elite Recce Squad and was attached to the United States embassy.
The report further disclosed that Orlando was a member of the Special Programme for Embassy Augmentation and Response (SPEAR), a team tasked with the responsibility of responding only to critical incidents involving US mission facilities and personnel in the country.
This comes barely a week after Orlando was nabbed as the third suspect in the brutal murder of Ms. Kimani, after his friend Joseph Irungu and TV journalist Jacque Maribe.
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Orlando is said to have been the second person seen in Maribe’s car with Irungu on the night Monica Kimani was murdered and detectives have been pursuing him for almost a month.
Earlier reports indicated that Jennings had fled to Tanzania through Mombasa.
After he was arraigned at the Kiambu Law courts, detectives requested to have him detained for 14 days as they looked into his movements, before and after Ms. Kimani's assassination.