Joseph ‘Jowie’ Irungu is in police custody. He had a confidential conversation with his mum, now, she is telling all about it.
Jowie is the prime suspect in the murder of Monicah Kimani. The 29-year-old businessman was found dead in her bathtub with her hands bound behind her, her throat slit and the water running to wash away the blood.
Jowie’s mum spoke to NTV’s Dennis Okari where she revealed a conversation she had with the son.
“The first night he called us, on a Sunday, he said he was in hospital and told me to tell his father as well. I asked him why he is in hospital. He said, he had been shot. I broke down. I wondered will he really survive. I asked him if he was shot coming to Nakuru or what is it that happened? He said, the shooting incident happened in Nairobi,” she said distraught and emotional.
Jowie at the time had been taken to Kijabe Hospital after the shooting incident. He was dropped by his friend.
She continued, “He then asked me if I could go see him in the hospital. I told him, I cannot make it to come see him that night because our car couldn’t make it all the way to Kijabe and we did not have money to hire one either. It was 7pm.
Later I asked him what will he eat, he said, right now I can only eat food prepared by you or Jacque but I cannot eat anyone else’s food. We asked him why? I don’t know the motive of those people who shot me. So I cannot just eat any food given to me by just anyone,” she said.
The mother explained further, “On Tuesday, when I called him, his phone was off. When I turned on the news at 1pm, I saw him. I was shocked. I got confused because I had just left him in hospital receiving his treatment. What is going on now?”
“I was still in shock over the news, I thought to myself that I should call his father but I stopped myself because he might get shocked and fall at work.
Instead I called Jowie’s daughter and asked her ‘Are you seeing what I’m seeing?’ She told me, ‘Mum, let me go to Kilimani and find out what has happened’.
He told me he knew Monicah but their relationship was not very close. He said, that Monicah is the one who called him but he missed the call. So he called her back. It is like she wanted Jowie to process some papers for her to go to Dubai. She also told him that she has some language that has been held at the airport and she needed help.
“Later again, Monicah called Jowie when she got to the house and told him to go see her but he told her he cannot go to her. He told us he did not go to that compound,” Jowie’s mum claims
