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By Joseph Nyagah.
A Kiambu Court on Thursday, August 29, allowed police to detain missing Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen’s wife, Sarah Wairimu Kamotho, as detectives gather evidence to charge her in court over her husband’s disappearance.
The court said it will, on Monday, September 2, deliver a ruling on whether Wairimu will be detained for 14 days as requested by police, who say they need more time to conduct investigations into Cohen’s disappearance.
Wairimu, 51, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon at her Nairobi home.
The suspect, who was on Thursday arraigned before Kiambu Senior Principal Magistrate Patricia Gichohi, did not take plea.
Senior investigator, Maxwell Otieno, told the court that they are following crucial leads, which would help unravel the mystery of Cohen’s disappearance.
Otieno further told Magistrate Gichohi that some of the equipment needed to aid in the probe “must be procured from a foreign nation”, therefore, they need to be allowed more time to carry out the investigations.
Wairimu’s lawyer, Philip Murgor, objected to the application terming it as “baseless and time-wasting”.
Cohen allegedly disappeared on July 19 this year, with Wairimu’s lawyers questioning why it took police 40 days to begin investigations into his disappearance.
Wairimu will spend the weekend at Muthaiga police cell.
In a previous interview with People Daily, Wairimu said she is optimistic her husband is “alive and well somewhere”, and that he will come back home some-day.
Wairimu told the publication that in January 2019, Cohen had informed her that he was intending to divorce her.
