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Louis' version of events.........from the archives:

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012 - 00:00 -- BY STAR
REPORTER
FORMER TV anchor Louis Otieno yesterday confirmed that he
was a friend of the 26-year-old woman found murdered in her
Nairobi flat on February 14, but denied that he killed her or
that he was in hiding. Otieno said he was devastated by her
death because they had become close although he clarified
that he did not have a sexual relationship with Careen
Chepchumba Kili.
"She started to share stuff with me and I realised she was
living in a difficult home. She started talking of having
conservative parents and an overly possessive father,
wondering when she will get married and what sort of a man
would get her father's approval," Louis told the Star before
addressing a press conference. "She then started talking of
physical and sexual abuse. My heart went out to her as I have
been vocal on these things and here was someone suffering at
my doorstep," he added.
Careen, the daughter of LAP Trust managing trustee Hosea
Kili, was found strangled on Valentine's Day morning in her
flat at Santonia Court, off Kirichwa Road in Kilimani area. She
was an IT engineer with Kenya Power. Initially suicide was
suspected until the postmortem found the cause of death was
strangulation. Otieno has recorded a statement with Kilimani
police and has been recalled to the station three times. On
Monday he was taken to the National Spinal Injury Hospital
on Lenana Road where blood and fingernail samples were
taken for a DNA test.
Sitting on a couch at his lawyer Philip Murgor's office, Otieno
yesterday narrated how he met Careen about a year ago when
he moved into Rose Park apartments in Kilimani. He occupied
the ground floor flat while the Kili family lived in the flat
above. "She would drop by my apartment and always laughed
about me being a bachelor but we were good friends. She
would even call my maid to ask if I had eaten or if she could
stop by a fast food and buy me chips," Otieno said.
He added that Careen's parents did not approve of their
friendship and she was several times asked to stop visiting
him. Otieno said she once told him, "I have been beaten for
being your friend". Another time she allegedly came to his flat
with a letter saying it had been drafted by her father. "It read:
'I will not be your friend any more and you will not be my
friend'. It had somewhere for her to sign and somewhere for
me to sign. Of course I dismissed it," said Otieno.
Otieno claimed that Careen once rushed to his house followed
by her father wielding a big stick and the mother hysterical.
"We had an altercation at the staircase where he accused me
or confusing and mesmerising their daughter with my money
and fame," Otieno said. "The next day I asked her if there was
someone we can talk to, like a friendly aunt, who can
intervene. Somebody her father can listen to. She said
(Athletics Kenya chairman) Isaiah Kiplagat was a great friend
of her father. We went to Kiplagat's house in Karen, we met
him and explained to him the problem and he said he will talk
to Kili," Otieno said.
When Careen went back home, her mother was allegedly upset
that she had gone to see Kiplagat. Otieno claimed he also
visited Kiplagat and this time he (Kiplagat) was with his wife.
"When nothing changed, Careen and I then decided that she
had to move out. We scouted for a flat and I helped her move.
We had to wait for her father to go to work and then we used
my three cars to move," he said.
Otieno claimed that Careen sought medical help for her
physical and emotional stress at his insistence. He took her to
several doctors who diagnosed her with a weak heart. She
was found to be diabetic. A psychologist in Westlands area
started counselling her. Otieno dismissed claims that she was
his girlfriend and lent him money. "This is a girl who was
troubled and it would have been taking advantage. She would
occasionally run errands for me like paying my hospital bill
when I was once admitted but it was my money. She was a
kind girl and just wanted to help," he said. "I was not leaving
off Careen's money. I was not extorting from her. I bought her
a (Volkswagen) Golf and I paid for it in cash," he said.
Otieno said he learned of Careen's death through a phone call
from Kilimani police station. "I sat with the Kilimani OCPD and
DCIO. That is when I wrote my first statement. They said that
at the scene the father kept saying Louis knows about this,"
he recalled. The journalist says he could not visit his flat at
Rose Park Apartments because of a hostile atmosphere with
the guards. He said he was told people were standing outside
his flat pointing at it. "I had my Range Rover and I asked my
driver to remove my Mercedes from the compound to where I
am staying now," he said without revealing his current abode.
Otieno said he was confident the truth would finally come to
light. He says the compound that Careen was living in at
Santonia Park was very small and no-one can leave without
the security guards seeing them. Otieno later told a press
conference that several other people, including family
members, had been requested to take DNA tests. “I would like
to assure the Kenyan public that I am totally innocent and
have no doubt that I will be vindicated at the end of the
investigations,” he said. Murgor defended Otieno's decision to
stay away from the Kili family during this mourning period
insisting it was a matter of personal discretion.

Then they say hiyo umemwaga is not enough ... another round needed!