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Death inside DJ Fatxo's house: Police look into victim's last days, sexual history

 

Some call it the witching hour while others know it as the devil’s hour.

And indeed, 3am on Thursday, February 23, 2023, is slowly turning out to be just that for renowned Kikuyu entertainer, Lawrence Njuguna alias DJ Fatxo.

On that day, a young man known as Jeff Mwathi, 23, who the entertainer had called allegedly for an interior décor job, ended up dead outside his Safari Park estate house in Nairobi.

Witness statements taken by local police say Mr Mwathi jumped from the 10th floor to the hard concrete downstairs – a case of death by suicide.

Mr Mwathi was buried in Nakuru County on March 3, 2023.

But the victim’s relatives, who include Kikuyu benga musician Samuel Muchoki aka Samidoh who is his uncle, have expressed reservations about what killed young Mwathi.

They insist that only a conclusive, open and transparent investigation will eliminate their doubts of foul play.

The Nairobi County police boss Adamson Bung’ei has assured all involved that “we are going to unravel the mystery and at the end of the day we will present the case as it happened, blow-by-blow”.

He said, “Police have nothing to gain by covering up and the ongoing investigations will answer all the lingering questions and make the findings public.”

Mr Bung’ei urged Kenyans to stop speculations and being judgmental “since all of us want to pursue the truth and place it on the table from where further decisions will be made”.

He, however, noted that justice cuts across the board --both suspects and victims- “and that is why we are recording as many statements possible from all we deem to be of interest and help…we remain very vigilant to detect all elements of possible crime(s) in the puzzle that we will soon unravel”.

As the probe goes on, DJ Fatxo has suffered a huge dent after some business partners suspended any engagements for fear of bad press.

The partners who have cut ties include Citified Homes, Lesedi (now Tuza), Vodka sweet berry, a rice company in Kirinyaga and Optiven.

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DJ Fatxo, a native of Nyandarua County, has built himself from the scratches of artistry as a disk jockey, performing artist and brand ambassador, elevating himself to the millionaires’ club in eight short years.

Ndi Mang’a (I am drunk)

He, however, burst into the limelight in 2020 when he released the song Ndi Mang’a (I am drunk), a song that opened his doors to well-paying Mugithi gigs. He followed that up with a collaboration with fellow Kikuyu singer Kamoko to release Mwomboko in 2021, asserting him among the vernacular elite singers.

“DJ Fatxo is content with the turn of events…he has nothing to hide and will cooperate with the investigators in all aspects as may be directed or demanded…,” said his lawyer, Mr Charles Mugane told journalists outside Kasarani police station, where the matter was reported.

The late Mwathi alongside two other friends were seeking to find a footing in the lucrative interior décor industry.

So when he got a call from DJ Fatxo for discussions about a contract, he borrowed Sh200 from his mother to go and meet him.

“I sent him the cash. He never went out to meet people without informing me first. He was my son and my best friend too. I even recorded the call as was common with our communication. My son was in high spirits and was interested in making money to treat himself since we were arranging for his relocation to Qatar where I am also based,” his mother, Ms Anne Wacuka, said.  

She told Nation.Africa that her son ended up meeting with DJ Fatxo and “he even took a short video to confirm they were together and sent it to me”.

The meeting ended up being a day of clubbing and drinking alcohol in four bars in Kiambu and Murang’a Counties until late.

A scene of crime report filed at Kasarani police station indicates that Mr Mwathi’s body had an open skull, multiple fractures on legs and hands and was naked from the waist downwards.

The preliminary investigative report indicates that the late Mwathi together with the DJ and another man retired to the ill-fated house at around 3am accompanied by three women.

“The six were joined by another male who is a relative of DJ Fatxo. About an hour later, DJ Fatxo left together with the three women and left (Mr) Mwathi in the company of the two males… Some minutes to 5am, the two men were captured by spy cameras going down to the ground, appeared as though scouting for something, one made a call and they went up back to the house,” the report reads.

 Seven minutes after they went up, a human of Mr Mwathi’s build is seen coming out of the window and descending to the ground. His body was later found on the concrete floor, lifeless.

A postmortem report attached to the investigative notes indicates that he died of acute trauma resulting from multiple injuries on the head and limbs. The head itself had burst open, the report adds.

DJ Fatxo, in his statement, indicates that he returned to the house at around 9am and found a scene in the compound but he did not know that it was his contractor –Mr Mwathi--who was lying there dead.

He is seen in the spy cameras looking at the body, holding his face in consternation before going up to his house.

The two men in his house, in their police statements, say that Mr Mwathi died by suicide after jumping out of the room.

Under the itemised “missing links” of the investigations, the sleuths have recorded the following as gaps to be filled: How long had Mr Mwathi known DJ Fatxo and in what aspect? What was Mr Mwathi’s history with the other two men captured in the video and their collective sexual orientation?

To unravel this, the detectives are visiting all the bars where Mr Mwathi was taken to collect as many behavioural relations between him and his company and especially the kind of drinks he was taking.

Detectives also want to establish what the reaction of the two men was after they learnt that Mr Mwathi had died by suicide as they claimed given that they remained indoors.

“It is peculiar that the two left (Mr) Mwathi in the house went down together and went down together and it was when they were up that the deceased exited the house to end up dead in the compound. There is a way under normal circumstances buddies will behave and this is a matter to be analysed with the help of experts and study of footages retrieved,” it reads.

DJ Fatxo is being investigated on why he ended up taking Mr Mwathi into an alcoholic binge and later into his house in the dead of the night if the principal need to meet him was to offer him an interior décor job.

Detectives also want to establish past mental diversities of the late Mwathi to ascertain whether he had exhibited suicidal thoughts “and especially why his mother was exhibiting open fear of movements of her son to a point of demanding video and audio evidence of where he was and meeting who”.   BY DAILY NATION  

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