Kiambu politician Gladys Chania to be charged with murder of husband George Mwangi

Kiambu politician Gladys Chania will now be charged with the murder her husband, Eng. George Mwangi.

This is according to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), which says that the suspect was arraigned in court on Friday before Kiambu Law Courts Resident Magistrate Wilson Radin'g.

Before she can take plea, Chania will be subjected to a psychiatrist test at Mathare Mental Hospital on Tuesday to determine if she is of sound mind, the prosecution team told the court. 

Chania, who unsuccessfully vied for Kiambu County Woman Representative seat at the August 9th polls, was arrested by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on October 14, 2022.

The DCI sleuths believe that her late husband, who had returned to Kenya from Kigali on September 13, 2022, might have been murdered in cold blood owing to the fact that he was allegedly intimately involved with one Lucy Muthoni, a secretary at a local school.

The 58-year-old's body was found dumped in Kieni Forest, Kiambu County, on October 12 just hours before he was allegedly supposed to fly back to Kigali.

The body was found wrapped in a polythene bag and covered under a heap of cartons.

According to the DCI, Chania reported her husband as missing at Mwea Police Post in Gatundu North on October 11, 2022.

Detectives have since visited the deceased's home in Mang'u, the suspected murder scene, and recovered some of the weapons believed to have been used to brutally kill the engineer.

The DCI stated that the murder weapons were found stashed in the master bedroom.

Police believe that the victim was murdered in his own home before his body was dumped three kilometres away from the crime scene.

Mwangi was on Thursday laid to rest at his Mang’u home in Gatundu North, Kiambu County.