The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has confirmed that investigations are underway into the death of Catholic priest John Maina, who was found murdered after hosting former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua.

Preliminary findings suggest he may have been killed by individuals targeting money donated to his parish.

Maina, a Catholic priest from Igwamiti Parish in Nyahururu, was discovered along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway by a good Samaritan, a motorcycle rider near the Diotomite stage with bruises on the left side of his head on May 15.

He told the boda boda rider that he had been abducted from Nyahururu.