A Nairobi magistrate ordered Inspector Kenneth Kipkemboi Sang held for 14 days in the killings of a lawyer and a doctor.

Monday's order lets investigators keep Sang in custody while they finish the file. Tuko reported the 14 days run before charges are preferred. Y News reported the DCI asked for the time before deciding whether to charge him. The firearm link and the planning allegation are what investigators told the court. They are not findings.

Tuko and Y News reported Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, that Principal Magistrate Paul Mutai allowed the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to detain Police Inspector Kenneth Kipkemboi Sang for 14 days. Both outlets reported he will be held at Kilimani Police Station and that the case returns to court on Nov. 9. Tuko reported the time is for investigators to question him, record a statement, conduct searches, make possible recoveries, carry out a mental-health assessment and finish the file before charges are preferred. Y News reported the DCI asked for time to do that work before deciding whether to charge him. The Daily Nation reported he was arrested Saturday, Oct. 24, in Eldoret, after detectives intercepted him on Uganda Road in a silver Toyota Fielder, registration KCM 508L, which the agency said he was trying to sell. The Nation reported the DCI said, "Inspector Kenneth Kipkemboi Sang, who had been on the run, was arrested by a team of detectives from DCI Headquarters," and that he was taken to Eldoret Police Station. Monday's hearing is the Nairobi court date after that arrest.

The two killings are about 10 months apart. Tuko and Y News reported Dr. Victoria Nthunya Mutiso, a psychiatrist and former director of the African Institute of Mental and Brain Health, was shot dead in Nairobi on July 29, 2026. The Daily Nation's arrest story described her as a clinical psychologist and mental-health researcher and reported she was shot while travelling in a vehicle in Upper Hill. Those are two descriptions of the same woman and the same date. They do not use the same job title or the same place name. Tuko and Y News reported investigators told the court that two spent cartridges and two bullets from the scene were linked by a ballistic examination to a Mini Jericho pistol later recovered, and that the prosecution said the pistol had been issued to Sang.

Tuko and Y News reported investigators have also linked Sang to the Sept. 9, 2025 killing of lawyer Mathew Kyalo Mbobu, and that the prosecution alleges he played a central role in planning it. The Daily Nation reported Mbobu, a lawyer, lecturer and former chair of the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal, was shot while driving home on Magadi Road by a gunman on a motorcycle, and that an autopsy found eight gunshot wounds to the chin, neck and chest. The Nation reported that in September 2026 the DCI named Police Constable Julius Kipkoech Cheruiyot as the suspected gunman and said a Ceska pistol issued to him was linked by ballistics to that killing. The Nation reported the Director of Public Prosecutions has approved murder charges against five other people in the Mbobu case: Rose Mbithe Mulwa, her son Chris Mulwa, her daughter Angela Mulwa, Cheruiyot, and Police Constable Kennedy Kipkemei Borbor. A separate Nation report has described Angela Mulwa as a 53-year-old lawyer and Chris Mulwa as an advocate. Y News spelled the constables Julius Kipkoeach Cheruiyot and Kennedy Kipkemoi Borboroi. The Nation reported the five are due to plead on Oct. 27. The Nation reported investigators suspect both killings are tied to a property dispute between Mutiso's husband, Professor David Musyimi Ndetei, and his former wife, Rose Mbithe Mulwa. The paper reported that suspicion is a line of inquiry, and that Sang's arrest does not establish guilt.

Monday's order is a detention while the investigation continues. Tuko reported it comes before charges are preferred. It is not a conviction in either killing. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.