Presidential hopeful Rose Mbithe Mulwa and her advocate son Chris Mulwa are currently in police custody after being linked to the execution-style murders of two people connected to a bitter multi-million-shilling property dispute.
The mother and son appeared before Milimani Principal Magistrate Geoffrey Onsarigo on Friday as state prosecutors sought thirty days to detain them while detectives search for the hired triggermen who carried out the fatal shootings.
The most recent victim, Dr. Victoria Nthunya Mutiso, was gunned down on the morning of July 29, 2026, near Kenyatta National Hospital while commuting in an online taxi to her office at the Africa Institute of Mental and Brain Health.
A black Toyota Prado blocked the taxi, allowing a shooter to fire multiple rounds into the vehicle. Dr. Mutiso was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
She was a prominent mental health researcher and the second wife of celebrated psychiatrist Professor David Musyimi Ndetei.Official documents show that Dr. Mutiso had repeatedly tried to alert authorities about threats to her life prior to the fatal attack.
In February 2026, thugs led by a senior police officer allegedly broke into her home, vandalized property, and tried to steal vehicles, though police delayed issuing an official occurrence book number for three months.
Later, on July 7, 2026, a gunman on a motorcycle approached her car at a traffic light in Dagoretti, but she managed to speed away to safety.Detectives are now linking her death to an almost identical killing that occurred ten months earlier.
On September 9, 2025, Nairobi lawyer Mathew Kyalo Mbobu was shot eight times on Magadi Road in Karen by attackers on a motorcycle.
Mbobu was the lawyer who represented Professor Ndetei in his matrimonial property battle against Rose Mbithe and had successfully defeated her in court.
He had also won a legal defamation judgment of one point five million shillings against Mbithe after she accused him of stalling court proceedings out of malice.
According to affidavits filed by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, both killings appear to stem from the twenty-year dispute over a valuable estate in Mlolongo, Machakos County.
After losing the property case and exhausting her legal avenues, Mbithe is alleged to have escalated the conflict beyond the courts. State prosecutors argued in court that releasing Mbithe and her son could compromise ongoing investigations, lead to witness tampering, or allow them to tip off the hired killers who remain at large.
The murder charges shatter the public image Mbithe carefully constructed as a pastor, mother, and political reformer aiming for the presidency in 2027.
She launched her campaign under the Empowerment and Liberation Party with the slogan Agenda Kenya Forty-Seven, abbreviated as AK47, while ironically claiming at the time that her movement did not rely on weapons.
Today, the woman who campaigned on a promise of moral integrity and safe leadership for the nation faces the possibility of prolonged detention as police work to unravel a double murder mystery.
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