Suspects in Nyamira couple murder arraigned in court

Friday, Friday, May 26, 2023

KNA by Deborah Bochere/Albert Mokaya

Three suspects linked to the gruesome murder of a couple from Nyamakotoro in Nyamira between the 20th and 21st March 2023, were arraigned before Nyamira High Court, charged with murder.

The trio, Peris Ondara, Dennis Ondara and Peter Njoroge, were arraigned before Judge Winfrida Okwany and pleaded not guilty to murder charges against them.

 Irate citizens who were baying for their blood flocked the Court premises. The Court ordered they be remanded in Kisii GK Prison till 30th of May 2023, when the case will be mentioned and determination whether they be guaranteed a bail and bond.

Requests by lawyer for the accused to detain his clients in Sotik or Kericho Prisons, due to security concerns and threats of harm from the community members, were declined.

Justice Okwany, cited a lack of evidence substantiating the claims that the accused individuals' lives were in immediate danger.

Four suspects have so far been arrested and arraigned in court and their cases will be consolidated when hearing will commence.

One of the suspects, Denis Ondara, was arrested, Friday last week at Isebania border en-route to Tanzania to escape arrest, but was nabbed by Director of Criminal Investigating (DCI) officers, who had posed as hawkers after he escaped their trap net at Ruai in Nairobi, where he had been hiding.

Residents of Egeturi Village in Nyamakoroto, Nyamira County. woke up to a rude shock on the 21st of March 2023, when Edward Morema, 62, who had just arrived from the USA and his wife, Grace Mongína, were found dead in their residence.

The DCI has been investing the homicide incident and tracking leads of the suspects’ hideouts, where four have already been nabbed and presented before court for trial.

Courtesy ; K. N. A