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Widow Wants Former MP Charged With Murder

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Published on Friday, 03 June 2011 18:08

A widow has filed a petition in the High Court in Kisii seeking to have a case in which her husband was killed after former Kitutu Chache MP Jimmy Angwenyi lost the 2007 polls heard afresh.

Robert Obwori's widow Lydiah Ogoti, through lawyer Herbert Nyamurongi, filed the petition wanting that the hearing of the case start afresh. She claims the case at the magistrate's court against Angwenyi's bodyguard, a police officer, was likely to obstruct and delay justice.

The case has been lying in a magistrate's court where police corporal Ronald Obonyo is charged with killing Ombwori during a stampede which followed the announcement of poll results.

The widow argues that according to witness accounts obtained by police at the time of the shooting at Marani Secondary School tallying hall, it was the former MP who was seen shooting her husband. The widow further argues that the case was filed as manslaughter against Obonyo, but she believes her husband was murdered. Angwenyi has always denied shooting Obwori to death.

In the petition before Justice Milton Makhandia, the Police Commissioner and the Attorney General have been sued as respondents. The widow says the case against the policeman continues to violate her rights and seeks the High Court's protection adding that the case only provide psychological torture to her family. She further argues the decision for indictment of Angwenyi's body guard with manslaughter is a move to block justice.

The mother of three also wants the High Court to issue an order of judicial review to quash the charge sheet of the case against the officer and compel the Police Commissioner and the AG to charge the former MP with murder.

But Angwenyi through lawyer D.G Wachira objected arguing some of the prayers sought by the petitioner are unrealistic and the law should not be bent because one party feels offended by the same law they are seeking protection from.

Justice Makhandia issued two weeks for both parties to present written submissions before a ruling is made on the fate of the petition. The case comes up for mention on June 17.

At the same time Makhandia rejected prayers by the petitioner's lawyer seeking for conservative orders against the ongoing case against the police officer.