{"id":18713,"date":"2026-01-12T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/18713\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:10:09","slug":"three-suspects-linked-to-murder-of-pharmacist-in-eldoret-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/18713\/","title":{"rendered":"Three suspects linked to murder of pharmacist in Eldoret arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three murder suspects arrested by police and DCI officers from headquarters following the killing of a medical officer are set to be arraigned after the conclusion of the probe.<\/p>\n<p>Titus Wainaina Njoroge, Jeremiah Njuguna Kinyanjui and Patrick Kinuthia Mwangi are suspected of being involved in a robbery with violence incident that resulted in the murder of Richard Rotich, a pharmacist at\u00a0Moi Teaching &amp; Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the press in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu county police commander Benjamin Mwanthi noted that the suspects were arrested with one AK-47 rifle.<\/p>\n<p>Mwanthi said one of the suspects is a convict who was arrested in 2018 and released after 7 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He assured residents that security has been beefed up and should undertake their business as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three murder suspects arrested by police and DCI officers from headquarters following the killing of a medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3672,9551,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-18713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-citizen-digital","9":"tag-eldoret","10":"tag-kenya"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}