When news broke that a young lady called Monica Kimani had been killed in the foulest way imaginable, the name of Jacque Maribe was the last thing in the minds of Kenyans.
But within a span of days, her name popped up after her fiance Joseph Irungu was arrested over the gruesome killing.
It would later emerge that the police wanted to interrogate her as a witness since Irungu had claimed that he had been with Maribe at the time Monica's killing occurred.
She showed up at the DCI for interrogation with her overprotective father but soon tables would turn for Maribe; the police arrested her and locked her up on a Friday after the interrogations.
Investigators now believed that Maribe had something to do with the killing.
When she was produced in a Kiambu court, Principal Magistrate Justus Kituku denied her bail application and allowed the police to hold her for eleven days for investigations.
The world suddenly changed for a young journalist who was on an inexorable, upward trajectory.
Truth be told, the world will never be the same for her as her linkage to a murder will be a permanent blotch on her reputation even if she is finally set free.
Charges that a man she dated is facing are serious.
Already her employer Citizen Television has sent her on a compulsory leave and it is hard to imagine that they will be willing to take her back.
I don't see any media outlet taking her up because of the damage to her reputation that her arrest and incarceration has caused.
Things will never be the same.
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