TOBIKO DECLARES LOUIS OTIENO INNOCENT OF MURDER

A Kenya Power employee found dead on Valentine’s Day was murdered, the Director of Public Prosecution Keriako Tobiko has said. Mr Tobiko concluded that Careen Chepchumba was strangled. According to Mr Tobiko, the evidence “does not connect any identified person or group of persons” including former TV anchor Louis Otieno, to the death of Chepchumba. Sources had linked the former celebrated news anchor to the muder of the Kenya Power employee. Louis had been interrogated by police on several occasions.

FINALLY, LOUIS OTIENO SPEAKS OUT

Former TV presenter Louis Otieno has spoken publicly for the first time over the death of his girlfriend Careen Chepchumba and declared that he knows nothing about the killing. Otieno instead blamed bloggers for circulating erroneous reports that have cast aspersions on his reputation. “The articles unfortunately have suggested that I am wanted, or being sought by the police as a suspect. The articles have also suggested that I am on the run which is absolutely false,” the former TV talk show host insisted. Chepchumba who died at 26 was an IT specialist at the Kenya Power company.
“The fact is that following the unfortunate demise of Careen, a number of persons all of who knew the deceased in one way or another, have been contacted by the Kenya police to determine whether or not they have any useful information regarding the incident.” Otieno confirmed that he was among the people working closely with the police in the investigation, and was optimistic he will be vindicated.
“I am certain that I will be cleared of any wrongdoing or event that could have led to the unfortunate death of Careen,” he said at a press conference in the company of lawyer Philip Murgor. Otieno insisted he was innocent and wondered why anyone would want to link him to “a murder I have nothing to do with. All I know is that I lost a friend.”
He admitted having a relationship with Careen prior to her death, but clarified that he last saw her earlier this month. She was a daughter to Hosea Kili, the Managing Trustee of Local Authorities Pension Trust (LAPTRUST).
Otieno is a neighbour of Careen’s family at an apartment block on Rose Avenue off Ngong Road, while the girl lived nearly a kilometre away in another apartment on Kirichwa Road within Kilimani.
Her body was discovered in the apartment last Tuesday morning and a post-mortem report shows she was strangled to death.
Soon after Careen’s body was discovered, her father said: “Our daughter was killed. She died in circumstances that cannot be explained. A post-mortem has showed Careen was actually strangled.”
Without mentioning any names, Kili demanded a thorough investigation from the police saying: “We do not want to speculate, but if the police can find out the people who were associating with my daughter, they should be able to pick the suspects.”
On Tuesday, Otieno vowed to continue cooperating with the police in the investigation.
“I have been a friend to Careen for a little over a year and I learned about the death from the police. I am completely innocent,” he told journalists at the media conference.
Otieno said he was aware of “a lot of dirt that has been flying around to the effect that the deceased woman had accumulated debts because of me.”
“A lot of things will come out after the investigations. I know there are a lot of things that are being discussed now but our friendship was being violently resisted by her parents. And that is one of the issues that she was seeking help and I did what I could to enable her get assistance in that area, including advising her to document each and every incident,” Otieno disclosed.


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Although the girl’s father was clearly opposed to the relationship, Otieno said he never spoke to him directly about it. “I cannot say to you why they were opposed to the friendship, but I can also tell you that we did not have a friendship on the promise of engagement or promise of marriage. That kind of relationship did not exist.”
“There are certain incidents where we have reported and I wouldn’t want to go into details,” he said as his lawyer intermittently interjected cautioning him against revealing or commenting on what is included in his statements to the police.
Asked to comment about a document the deceased girl’s father told journalists indicated that Otieno had been harassing her, he said: “I was her friend, and if there was any kind of harassment, why would it be on a single note, it could be on a series of documented notes, but then these are issues that are being investigated.”
On reports by bloggers that he has been on the run, Otieno said: “How can I be on the run when you can confirm that I have been at the police station several times? I have never been held, and I have never been picked up at any one time.”
“I drive around in Nairobi… I have been in shopping malls, I have been at the airport and I have been seen all over in public places. How can I be on the run yet I am seen in public,” Otieno said, insisting he is not a suspect in the murder. “All I know is that I lost a friend, and I as much as the next person I would want to know what happened to her.”
When one journalist at the press conference asked him if he can be described as a violent man, he said: “I have no history of violence ever, from school from growing up to my adult age; I do not have a history of violence.”

LOUIS OTIENO.....COULD THIS BE TRUE?

We stumbled on this from another gossip blog....read it...Louis loves the good life (we all do) but he wasn’t willing to pay for it, he was brought up in Kibera’s Laini Nane. He got a media break because of his mother and soon became one of the hottest media properties in Kenya. His decline started when he joined Citizen TV, as part of their re-structuring they poached heavily from KTN and they gave out lots of money, for Louis, he had ‘Fikad’ he became a diva!
Initially he was doing ONE show a week, a show he never used to prep for because he was too big to be involved in the ‘planning’ of his own show. His lifestyle became bigger; he discovered gold bracelets, expensive shoes and a woman who could pay it all for him. He chose this woman over his own wife and kids; his family was at one point evicted from their house as he rolled around Nairobi in his VX and his new catch, a woman who is a few years older than him.

You all know how that story ended. They broke up a few times; Louis was fired from Citizen for trying to ‘steal’ from them. He moved to K24, and that didn’t last either, then he was ‘Jobless’ his ‘Main’ lady left him. That’s when he met a new young girl, a girl who had access to money.

He would ask her to get him like 200k, she’d make a few calls and she’d get 200k for him. She borrowed from everywhere, from the bank, friends and even relatives., When his ‘camp’ started the rumour that he was going to be Raila Odinga’s communications director, he felt he needed a car to match his new ‘Big title’ so he told his ‘lady’ he needed a RR Sport. They traded in his VX with a motor dealer in Lavington. The balance from the swap was 1.4 Million, the lady borrowed money to clear that bill. He was preying on her big time.

Back to the lady, in January this year, things got really thick for her, her kidneys were not doing very well, plus the stress from the people she owed money was becoming too much to bear. She quit her job and joined Loius in ‘Business’ no one knows what his business was, but he used to tell her he’d pay her back because this year, he was going to hold several presidential debates on television. When she exhausted all avenues of getting money, he went silent. He stopped picking up her calls, he wanted NOTHING to do with her and he went back to his previous mine. The lady was broken, last week on the 9^th after she celebrated her 26^th birthday, she wrote on her diary that this was her last birthday. On Sunday, when she went to see her parents, she gave the whole story and even gave receipts to some of the payments she’d made for him (including a hospital bill) in total she owed over 10 Million shillings.

Update

Several conflicting reasons are being floated about how the young lady died. Sections of her family say she killed herself, others says she got into a diabetic coma and passed away.

source: www.mm.co.ke