South Sudanese presidential advisor General Awet Akot has distanced himself from the murder of Kenyan business lady Monica Kimani.
General Akot also dismissed reports appearing on a section of Kenyan media claiming that he was in a romantic relationship with the 29-year-old woman who was brutally killed in her apartment in Nairobi’s Kilimani estate on September 20th.
The lifeless body of Monica was found stuffed in a bathtub at her apartment with the throat slit, a day after she jetted back to the country from Juba, South Sudan where she was reportedly running a family business.
A number of local media reported that Akot was behind Monica’s flashy lifestyle that included expensive cars, apartment and trips abroad. During her burial, her father said Monica had promised to buy him an SUV V8 on her birthday.
Through his office executive manager Deng Aoch, Akot said he had never met the Kenyan woman and did not even know who she was.
“How would you have worked with somebody you don’t know?” he said as quoted on the Standard.
He further threatened to sue Kenyan media that linked him to Monica and her gruesome murder.
“We are wondering what is the relevance of saying the governor had a relationship with Monica. Are they trying to imply that the general had a hand in the murder?
“The only true thing about whatever is being peddled in the press in Kenya about this whole matter is that the General was a governor in Rumbek” Achoch stated.
He further termed as false reports that he owns property worth millions of shillings in Nairobi which were being supervised by Monica.
“The general does not own a single iron sheet in Nairobi. If he owns anything it is in South Sudan and this is well known,” Achoch said.
Citizen TV news anchor Jacque Maribe, her fiancée Joseph Irungu alias Jowie and her neighbour have since been arrested in connection to Monica’s murder.
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