Man arrested after killing his father in dispute over chicken in Kirinyaga
A 25-year-old man was arrested in connection with the murder of his father in a village in Kirinyaga County.
The suspect is accused of killing his father Boniface Murage, 44, in a gruesome attack after a dispute involving chicken.
The incident happened in Karumandi in Kirinyaga’s Gichugu Constituency, police said. According to police, the suspect used a panga to chop off both his father’s hands and was found draining his blood into a bucket, leaving the family horrified and questioning if he intended to drink it.
Gichugu sub-county Police Commander Johnson Wachira said the suspect was allegedly fighting with his 44-year-old father when the incident happened.
The police boss said the suspect used a sharp panga to cut his father’s two hands.
“The suspect reported the matter at Kianyaga Police Station and then went to Kianyaga Sub-County Hospital for treatment. His father was brought to the same hospital, where he died on arrival,” Wachira said.
Wachira said the suspect was arrested at Kerugoya Referral Hospital by detectives after he was rushed there by a boda boda rider from Kianyaga, upon realizing his father had died.
He is being guarded by police at Kerugoya Referral Hospital, where he is admitted. He alleged he was also injured, as he had reported the matter at Kianyaga Police Station.
Witnesses said the suspect used a sharp panga to cut his father’s two hands off over chicken. Neighbours rushed to the scene after the deceased cried for help and found two buckets of blood, but the suspect had already fled.
They were later told he was seen at Kianyaga Police Station saying they had a fight and he was the one who cut his drunk father’s hands.
The deceased’s body was taken to Kibugi Funeral Home awaiting postmortem, police said.
Elsewhere, a 31-year-old man was arrested in connection with the murder of his father in Mangelete village, Makueni County.
The suspect is accused of killing his father and later hanged his body to stage a suicide. This followed a dispute over the felling of trees on the deceased’s piece of land.
The body of Peter Kailu Nzango, 76 was found strangled and hanging on a branch of tree after the May 20 incident.
According to police, the deceased had some misunderstanding with the son over cutting of trees within his homestead. Witnesses told police the assailant hit and the deceased before strangling him.
He then tied a rope around his neck and dragged the body to the nearby bush and hanged it on a low-hanging branch of a tree to stage a suicide.
Police said the body had visible bruises on both legs.
The suspect was later traced and arrested in the area as the body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.