From: Christine Baraza

The wife of Nyanza deputy Provincial Commissioner Oku Kaunya says her life is in danger.

Mrs Millicent Kaunya said she had received two phone calls from strange people warning her to “stop talking” about her husband or she would be killed.“I’m leaving in fear, the last time I talked to you journalists, I received a phone call and the caller warned me that he would take my head,” Mrs Kaunya told Nation on Sunday.

She had been given similar threats when she went public about her husband’s disappearance last month. She said that she had reported the death threats to the police on both occasions but no action had been taken. “I have reported these threats but no action is forthcoming from them, I don’t want to die because my children are still small,” Mrs Kaunya said. The deputy PC, who is ranked by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) as a ‘high profile witness’ in case of any trials connected to the post-election violence was reported by his wife to have been missing for three days on March 19. He, however, surfaced the next day in Kakamega town and claimed that he was in an area in Vihiga District where he couldn’t make contact with his family as there was no phone network. Mr Kaunya left the country on April 11 after he attempted to meet a senior government official without success.