The key suspect in the murder of the late Dutch businessman Tob Cohen, Sarah Wairimu Kamotho was arraigned at the Kibera Law Courts on Friday to face charges of giving false information to a police officer and swearing of a false affidavit.

Wairimu is accused of providing false information knowingly to a police officer. She claimed that her passport had been lost, prompting the officer to issue her with a police abstract based on her false report.

The Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) conducted investigations and revealed that Wairimu had gone to Pamki House in Nyeri town on the same day she made the report, appeared before Advocate Muchiri wa Gathoni and swore an affidavit falsely.

Armed with both the police abstract and a sworn affidavit, Wairimu is alleged of proceeding to the offices of the Immigration Department where she applied for a new passport. Detectives later discovered that her original passport was not missing, but was in the custody of the DCI as part of ongoing investigations following the murder of her husband.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) approved two charges against Wairimu – giving false information to a police officer and swearing a false affidavit, upon reviewing the findings of the investigation.

She was presented at the Kibera Law Courts before Principal Magistrate Zainab Abdul, but denied both counts leading to her remanding at the Lang’ata Women’s Prison awaiting further proceedings.

Wairimu’s case will be mentioned on November 25, 2025, for a pretrial conference, where directions on the hearing will be issued.

The latest charges add to the long-running legal battles surrounding Wairimu who is still at the center of the high-profile case involving the murder of her husband, Tob Cohen