The family of the murdered Moi University student Ivy Wangechi has accused the State of sabotaging the case pitting them against their daughter’s alleged killer Naftali Kinuthia.
On Thursday Wangechi’s mother, Winfred Waithera said that the prosecution is delaying the case intentionally.
Waithera said that it’s been two years since her daughter was hacked to death by Kinuthia who confessed but the case has failed to take off.
“I’m a frustrated mother to a dead girl who did not die because of a road accident, disease, not even Covid but who died because somebody just wanted to see my daughter dead,” Waithera lamented.
When they went to court this week, it marked their fifth attempt at having the case take off but the Kinuthia’s lawyer was not in court forcing Justice Stephen Githinji to adjourn the case once more.
Waithera termed this a deliberate attempt by the accused to circumvent justice.
The family’s lawyer said the case is now in the third year yet the prosecution has done nothing.
“This is the third year since the incident happened and up to now the prosecution has never opened the case, not because of a mistake of their own but because of the well-calculated moves by the defense, the accused person to frustrate this cause,” the Wangechi’s family lawyer said.
Justice Githinji while adjourning the case directed the defence to appoint a new attorney for the case to take off in earnest.
In April 2019, Kinuthia allegedly travelled to Eldoret to visit Wangechi. She was an intern doctor at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret.
She is in her final sixth year.
Kinuthia is said to have been irked by the late Wangechi who turned down his advances. It is then that he went and purchased a machete at a local hardware and lay in hunt of Wangechi.
When he spotted her walking to the hospital, he approached her and hacked her to death.
An irate mob pounced on him with kicks and blows. He was saved by police intervention but sustained serious injuries.