An investigation has been launched after Nairobi-based lawyer Boaz Nyakeri was stabbed by an assailant as he walked home in the Ongata Rongai area, Kajiado County.
Nyakeri was stabbed in the neck and succumbed to injuries while being attended to at the casualty section at Kenyatta National Hospital after being referred from Sinai Hospital.
His cousin, who was with him at the time of the attack, was also stabbed and injured in the arm as he tried to save the deceased young advocate of the high court.
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The matter was reported at Ole Kasai police Station and the DCI have taken over for more investigations.
Police said preliminary findings show Nyakeri and his cousin had been at a party near Osoita Lodge and were walking home at about 5 am Saturday when a man attacked them.
The two had spotted the man trail them for a short distance and before they could decide to either confront him or run for safety he landed on Nyakeri with a deep stab in the neck.
This prompted the cousin to join in efforts to save him but was also attacked by the lone man before he vanished.
"A Good Samaritan rushed him to Sinai Hospital where he was referred to Kenyatta National Hospital but he passed on while being attended to at the casualty section," police report indicated.
He had bled profusely. The body was moved to the mortuary where a postmortem is planned for Wednesday November 8.
The other victim was attended to at the hospital and discharged.
LSK Chief Executive Officer Mercy Wambua condemned the attack saying the responsibility placed on advocates as court officials and human rights defenders place them at a relatively higher risk of possible attacks by adversaries.
She said that the assailants, who seemed to have been trailing him stabbed him in the neck but did not steal anything from him, leaving a lot of questions as to the motive behind the attack.
“It is in this regard that we call on the Government to put in place strategies to ensure that advocates, magistrates, judges as well as all court officials are provided with adequate security and protection from any form of harm, threats, intimidation and attacks that may arise as a result of the nature of their work,” she said.
She asked authorities to heighten the security apparatus within the country, especially during the festive season.
Detectives from Ongata Rongai DCI visited the scene on Saturday as part of the probe into the incident.
They said no arrest had been made and that the hunt on the assailant is ongoing.
The motive of the attack is yet to be known, police and the family.
The family led by his father Justus Nyakeri have revealed their devastations as they Lost Boaz's sister this year July.
Boaz studied Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at Africa Nazarene University and worked with a local legal firm.
