Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have cordoned Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza’s official residence.

The sleuths enclosed her home in Milimani estate, Meru County using yellow tape amid ongoing investigations into the murder of slain blogger Daniel Muthiani alias Sniper.

This comes a day after DCI officers sought permission to detain five additional suspects in the murder case.

Two of the five are Governor Mwangaza’s son and brother- who doubled up as one of her bodyguards.

The DCI requested for Kenneth Mutua, Fredrick Muriuki, Frankline Kimathi, Timothy Kinoti, and Murangiri Kenneth be held for 21 days at the Muthaiga Police Station in order to allow their investigations to be completed.

The application was submitted to the Kiambu Magistrate Court.

The five suspects were taken into custody on January 4th in Meru County, and detectives from the investigation’s team booked them into several Kiambu and Nairobi County police stations.

The application claims that the five accused tricked the Meru blogger into a false meeting with Meru Governor Mwangaza, whom he was publicly criticizing.

They alleged that she wanted to reach an agreement with him.

After leaving his house in Igembe South to meet the five suspects in Meru town, the deceased vanished, raising concerns among his family.

A funeral service was held on Friday, January 5 for the Meru blogger whose body was found Mutonga River in Tharaka Nithi County on December 16.

He had been reported as a missing person on December 2.

According to a postmortem investigation done by government pathologist Johansen Oduor at the Marimanti Level 4 Hospital Mortuary in Tharaka Nithi, Meru County, it was discovered that Sniper was strangled to death.

The examination of the body showed there were no defence injuries thus raising questions on whether he was subdued to a level where he could not defend himself.