Despite Joseph Irungu having been raised as a church boy as his parents said, he seemed to have developed a shadowy character that has shocked his friends.
According to an investigative piece aired by NTV on Monday night, Jowie, as he is popularly known, at one time, lied about the death of his father leading to a fundraising.
Jowie had reportedly told his friends that his father had fallen sick and died.
The friends set up a WhatsApp Group and started to fundraise to assist him.
“Some of them were shocked to see Joe’s father on Sunday talking to Okari (NTV’s Dennis Okari). They all along knew his father had died,” a friend said.
Later, Jowie is said to have ‘apologized’ to a few friends who insisted on attending his father’s burial and told them that the father had recovered.
Others, however, did not know and thought a burial had taken place.
The Monday night news must have been a shocker to Jowie’s father who had earlier talked positively of his boy with the same TV.
Speaking to Okari, the man said they raised Irungu in church and could not imagine that he had killed Monica Kimani.
Jowie used to attend Agape Church in Nakuru’s Kanu Street estate.
He attended Carol Academy before joining Langalanga secondary school.
Their former neighbours were shocked to see that the boy they knew as an active choir member had been accused of slaughtering a 28-year-old woman.