After a 35-year-old man brutally murdered his wife and four children, Kathata village in Gichugu, Kirinyaga County, Kenya, has been in shock.
According to Anthony Mbogo, the Gichugu sub-county Police Commander, who corroborated the event, the suspect, Paul Murage Njuki, cut his wife and children to death with an axe on Monday, November 29.
Millicent Muthoni, 38, Nelly Wawira, 13, Gifton Bundi, seven, Sheromit Wambui, five, and Clifton Njuk, one, have been named as the victims.
Mbogo claims that after Njuki murdered his family, he went to the Kianyaga Police Station and demanded to be arrested and imprisoned for six months for peddling bhang.
“I was shocked and ordered my officers to investigate him. He shocked my officers by telling them he had killed his wife and their four children.” Mbogo stated.
According to the suspect, he killed his wife using an axe before moving on to his children.
“He hit them with a blunt object before cutting them. He led us to where he said he hid the axe but we did not find it because of the heavy rains. We are still doing more investigations,” Mbogo said.
At roughly 2230 hours, police arrived on the scene and discovered the bodies in their beds, with several stab wounds on their heads.
Njuki allegedly raped his eldest daughter before killing her and then hid the killer axe along the riverbanks in his community.
According to Mbogo, Njuki did not give specific reasons for murdering his family; nonetheless, people of the hamlet claim the man quarreled with his wife over a lack of onion in the evening dish. The husband insisted on onions in his dinner, but his wife insisted she didn’t have any.
The suspect is being detained at Kirinyaga police station, according to Mbogo, while the five bodies were taken to Kerugoya hospital mortuary for a postmortem.
Source; Ghgossip.com
