Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City
RESIDENTS of Kanjuro village in Sidho East Location within Muhoroni sub-county, KISUMU County woke up last Thursday to a rude shock when they discovered that a 68 year old grand mother had been killed in a grisly murder and beheaded and some parts of the body missing.
The lifeless and mutilated body of Mrs Doris Amolo 68 year old grand mother Matete was placed on a plastic chair, while the head was kept besides it. Her both arms, particularly the little fingers were also severed off altogether with her lip.
Her 78 year old husband was in the house and they house door was locked from outside. The husband William Matete a retired employee of the Kenya breweries Limited had gonr blind, and the two were living alone in the house. Villagers became suspicious that something fishy had gone wrong when the deceased family house door remain locked from morning to noon hours. They later forced the door open when they discovered the body. The blind husband was still struggling to open the door locked from outside in vain.
POLICE IN Kisumu immediately swung into action and arrested three people. The suspect included a former civic Councilor in the defunct County Council of Nyando representing MSOGO Ward.
The police visited the home of a family relative and recovered several items suspected to have been stolen by the old woman’s killers. The items included a gas cooker, 50 corrugated iron sheets, several kilograms of roofing nails, 12 bags of cement. The police are holding the three who are likely to appear before a court in Kisumu to answer murder charges.
The deceased was the mother an unsuccessful aspirant for the Muhorooni parliamentary constituency in 2007 and now a director director of Algiers, East African Air Condition Limited in Kisumu.
After a thorough interrogation by the police, the two youths readly admitted that they were paid Kshs 20,000 by the ex-Councilor and were to be paid a balance of Kshs 30,000 to add it up to a total Kshs 50,000 upon the completion of the job. The youth told relatives and the police that they had taken the missing parts of the body to the e-civic leader to justify the payment of the balance money.
A local source confided to this writer that there has been a long standing enmity within the larger MATETE family arising from unresolved old land dispute,. The Ex-Councilor, it was further alleged is fond of issuing death threats to members of this family., Most of these threats were reported to the police. Last year his son by the name Okoth attacked the deceased and assaulted her causing her bodily harm when the old grand mother cautioned him to stop grazing hers of cattle in her home compound. The deceased reported the matter to the police. She was issued with a P3 form, which was duly filled by a competent medic who had assessed her injuries as grievous harm. The P3was handed to the Police at Chemelil Police, but for the whole year the police did not act on it until the deceased met her death last Thursday.
The grisly murder come within only a month after the parents of Nyakach MP Aduma Owuor were killed and their house partly burnt in Kabete, Upper Nyakach region.
Muhoroni MP James Oyango Koyoo strongly condemned the cowardice killing of Mrs Matete and appealed to the police to step up surveillance in the area with the view to wedding out criminal thugs who are making the lives of fellow citizens difficult.
Koyoo at the same time appealed to his constituents to co-cooperate with the forces of law reinforcement in eradicating The alarming increased in criMe waves in Muhoroni.
At the time of writing this report, residents were still wondering why the neighbor of the deceased in whoise house the stolen items were discovered, and who is a school teacher living only 600 meters from thre victim”s house had yet to be arrested and charged with the offense of hadling stolen goods or items he had reasons to believe were had been stolen. The man is still moving around scots free.
The Ex-Councilor, according to residents who requested for their anonymity is a man who is fond of bragging off saying he had a lot of money and can hire thugs to eliminate anybody who crosses his path and bails himself out free.
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