According to Sarah Wangithi the death of her second born son was
the start of sadness in her homestead in the year 2009. Her son John Mugo was
alleged by residents to have violently robbed a resident in the area and an
irate mob accosted and stoned him to death in front of his family.
Wangithi’s husband could not take the pain and died shortly
after the grisly murder. The same year her elder son Douglas Ngunyi who had a criminal
record was on transit on police Land Cruiser to Nyeri court for sentencing when
police released him and shot him dead as he walked away.
A year later a robbery incident happened in the area and without
thinking residents who believed that one of her sons was involved stormed the
home and stoned yet another son to death.
The grief stricken home with five graves and yet another to be
dug is a clear indication of what the elderly woman is going through.
In her story, she said her fourth son Paul Wamugunda was killed
recently at Sagana as a group of boda boda operators accosted him at his timber
yard and stoned him to death on suspicions that he was involved in a robbery of
a boda boda at Sagana.
Seeing what had happened to his brother Joram Gichira, Wagithi’s
last born fled from the area and only came home for his burial and when he was
returning to Nairobi residents at Sagana accosted the matatu he was travelling
in pulled him out and stoned him to death.
Kirinyaga OCPD Apolo Onyonyi termed the killings as unacceptable
and said that the practice is a threat to justice.
+ comments + 1 comments
grief