The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) is pursuing owners of 11 mobile phone numbers and a Kenya Commercial Bank account that were allegedly sending money to the suspect behind the murders of three women in Eastleigh.

The DCI says Hashim Muhumed was receiving funds through his phone number during the period that he was on the run and the owners of the SIM cards and the bank account are also needed in the investigations.

The details are contained in an affidavit filed at the Makadara Law Courts by Sergeant Mohamed Hassan of DCI’s Homicides Unit who sought orders to investigate the subscribers and the bank account holder.

In documents filed in court, DCI says that Muhumed was in constant communication with the deceased women on both nights they died and before their bodies were later found at different places.

The suspect also allegedly communicated with and received money from the said numbers.

“The applicant's (DCI) preliminary investigations indicate that the said subscriber numbers were used to facilitate the commission of the offence under investigations through communication and sending money,” stated Sgt. Hassan.

He obtained orders to access, inspect, investigate and obtain and be supplied with certified copies of subscribers’ details, communication data records.

The Safaricom CEO is also required to supply the DCI with M-Pesa statements for the said subscribers' (SIM) card holders for the period between September 1, 2024, and November 4, 2024, which will be used for investigations. 

KCB is also required to give similar details for the account in question.

Safaricom and KCB can only produce the details required by DCI in compliance of a court order.

This is the requirement in gathering of electronic evidence under section 106 (b) (4) of Evidence Act in respect of evidence generated electronically or from an electronic equipment.

“The investigations involve three deceased persons murdered and bodies dumped in different locations therefore requires time to document and gather evidence that is sufficient to prove the offence,” stated Sgt. Hassan.

DCI has since obtained orders to detain Muhumed at Ruaraka police station for a period of 21 days pending the investigations. The orders were granted by Senior Principal Magistrate Mary Njagi.

Hashim is suspected of killing Dahabo Daud Said, her daughter Musayba and Niece Amina after picking them up at different times October 21-22, 2024.

Dahabo’s body was found at a village in Machakos County some two kilometres from Mombasa Road Makutano Kyumbi junction the next day. The body was mutilated and had stab wounds.

Muhumed called Musayba on October 22, 2024, to meet him, but she called her cousin Amina to accompany her.

Musayba’s body was later found near Bahati Primary School fence while Amina’s was found in Parklands.

DCI detectives believe that the suspect called Musayba to kill her because she had recorded details of the car that picked her mother and could help in tracing him, and Amina was only killed after accompanying her cousin where she had been lured for murder.

The bodies of the three(3) deceased women had stab wounds and some mutilated and the knife suspected to be the murder weapon was found near Musayba’s body on October 22.

Musayba had left home on October 22 accompanied by Amina after receiving a call from a person who used her mother’s phone.