Details have emerged of how a South Sudan General helped slain Monica Kimani amass wealth while working in South Sudan’s Capital, Juba.
According to Daily Nation, Monica moved to Rambek in South Sudan where her father Paul Ngarama worked in 2013 and got a job at Lt. General Daniel Awet Akot’s office who was a Governor at the time.
She is reported to have grown through the ranks while working for the Governor and accompanied him everywhere he went.
After General Akot was appointed Deputy Speaker in the National Legislative Assembly of South Sudan, he moved with Monica, who had stopped working for him, to Juba where she was trying to expand her family’s courier services business.
In 2017, Ms. Kimani started her own interior design business and through Akot’s connections she was able to get government contracts as well as contracts from other private organizations within South Sudan.
In two years, Monica is said to have acquired her own properties in Nairobi, Ruiru and Roysambu.
According to her friends, Monica travelled to Kenya at least twice every month to check on the South Sudan Deputy Speaker’s properties in Kilimani and Kileleshwa.
Lieutenant General Akot is also said to have helped Monica Kimani’s father Reverend Paul Ngarama, who was his close friend, his Faith Mission Church in South Sudan.
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Mr Ngarama, who spoke to Nation dismissed claims that his daughter was married to the South Sudanese politician but said that he was a very close family friend.
Monica Nyawira Kimani was found murdered in a bathtub inside her Kilimani apartment with her throat slit. Three suspects linked to her brutal murder have so far been arrested, as investigations continue.
