As the year ends, we take a look at bizarre news that hit headlines from Kakamega county in 2021.
Mother killed
In November, a 35-year-old man from Kakamega county was arrested by police for allegedly killing his mother.
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Makomere Shikokongo is said to have kicked his 60-year-old mother when she went to separate them during a fight with his two brothers; John Omoro and Joseph Amakobe.
“A fight between three unreasonable brothers turned tragic after one of them killed their mother who had tried to prevail upon them to stop fighting. Makomere Shikokongo, John Omoro, and Joseph Amakobe had turned their mother’s compound in Ibokolo, Kakamega county into a battlefield, where they physically went for each other’s throats over an unknown issue,” a statement by DCI read in part.
Shikokongo is said to have been displeased with his mother’s decision of trying to separate them hence forcing him to give her a kick that sent her to the ground a few meters away before resuming the fight with his brothers.
The woman is said to have died in her house following the injuries she sustained from her son’s fatal kick.
“All this happened as their 63-year-old father Paul Shikokongo was away from home. The 60-year-old woman who had complained of body aches as a result of the attack, died in her house since she had not been taken to the hospital for medical attention,” DCI added.
House on fire over Ksh800 rent arrears
In a separate incident that occurred in the same month, a family in Mumias, Kakamega County, spent the night in the cold after their landlady set their house ablaze, over a disagreement on payment of house rent.
According to a police statement seen by K24 Digital on Friday, November 5, Caroline Mukolwe, the owner of the property had approached the tenant on the evening of November 4, 2021, demanding house rent amounting to Ksh800.
“However, the tenant, 40-year-old Teresia Ayeng, could not raise the total amount at the moment. Instead, she offered the landlady ksh400 pledging to clear the balance in a few days,” the police statement read in part.
Police say the seemingly impatient landlady who would hear none of her tenant’s pleas for more time to raise the rest of the money, rushed back to her house and came back running holding a bottle full of kerosene and a matchbox.
“She entered the tenant’s house, doused her bedding and clothing with the kerosene and set it ablaze reducing the poor woman’s belongings to ashes,” the police statement read in part.
As Ayeng tearfully watched all her earthly possessions valued at Ksh47,000 go up in flames, the landlady triumphantly paced up and down the scene of the fire in jubilation.
According to eyewitnesses, Ayeng who could not come to terms with what had befallen her had tried in vain to plead with the landlady, but her pleas fell on deaf ears.
Man commits suicide after sleeping with his daughter
In another sad news story, the body of a 40-year-old man who sells second-hand clothes in Kakamega town was found dangling from his roof in October after he allegedly committed suicide inside his rented house in Kenya Power scheme estate, Kakamega.
Moses Kariuki, a father of two is said to have hanged himself after his wife Margaret Wanjiru,30, reported him at Kakamega police station for allegedly having a sexual relationship with their 12-year-old daughter.
”The victim, a class six pupil at St.Teresa Primary School refused to return home after the school holidays informing one of her female teachers that she cannot go back home for fear of being sexually harassed by her biological father. The teacher was forced to call her mother and narrate the entire story,” Vincent Ogutu told K24 Digital then.
Ogutu revealed that Wanjiru called her husband while at school with their daughter and her teacher asking Kariuki if the allegations against him were true.
However, the husband pleaded with her to return home so that they sort out the issue.
On reaching home the suspect turned hostile prompting her to report to Kakamega Police Station only to find all the doors to the house locked.
Wanjiru managed to get inside the house through the bedroom window only to find the body of her husband hanging from the roof with a rope around his neck.
His friends and colleagues mourned him as a responsible man.
“We have lost someone who has been a breadwinner to many including a student from Masinde Muliro University who is employed by the deceased. Kariuki was such a gentleman. We will miss him,” Thomas Aseno told K24 Digital.
