In December 2016, one of the personnel from Ruto's office was reported to also link Ruto to the assassination by delivering a letter to activist Boniface Mwangi in order to help with his defamation case against Ruto by providing details of the murder by persons in Ruto's office. In the same month it was reported that the personnel was to be charged in court for extortion. An investigating officer claimed that the arrested personnel from Ruto's office claimed that another personnel in Ruto's office called Rono had credible information that Activist Mwangi could be killed in a stage-managed road accident. The arrested personnel from Ruto's office was later sent for mental check up after he further claimed that he was coached to lie about his claims of Jacob Juma's murder by the activist boniface mwangi.