Veteran author and journalist Ken Walibora was embroiled in a dispute before his death, phone records retrieved by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) reveal.
According to a report by the Daily Nation on Wednesday, April 22, Walibora was involved in a dispute with his publisher over a book in the week leading up to his death.
The DCI’s Serious Crime Unit informed that based on the call records, it had established the exchange thereby forming a new theory through which the puzzling case would be investigated.
Apart from that, the police were also pursuing leads on whether the author was picked up by another car after parking his own on Kijabe Street in the hours leading up to his death.
Previous police reports indicate that the revered author was knocked down by a matatu on Landhies Road, more than three kilometers from where he left his car on Friday, April 10.
Guards in the area where Walibora had parked his car were questioned on the movements of the poet and academic.
Detectives are reported to have gained access to CCTV footage that could have shed more light on the death that sent the media fraternity into mourning.
Detectives were yet to unravel the puzzle of stab wounds that the professor sustained in his hands, which Government Pathologist Johanssen Oduor stated were consistent with an attempt at self-defense.
Oduor’s analysis lent credence to unconfirmed reports that Walibora was being chased by a group of men before he was hit by a minibus belonging to the Double M company when crossing Landhies Road in Nairobi’s downtown area.
Walibora body was found on Wednesday, April 15, at the Kenyatta National Hospital Mortuary.
Preliminary reports indicated that Walibora was crossing the road, car keys in the hand, and a press card in his pocket, when he was knocked down by a matatu on Friday, April 10.
He is set to be buried in his home in Trans-Nzoia county on Wednesday, April 22.