Court acquits Koinange widow and six others over murder charges

Nakuru, Kenya: The High Court in Nakuru has acquitted late powerful minister Mbiyu Koinange’s widow and six others charged for the death Moses Ole Mpoe and Parsaaiya Ole Kitu.

Eddah Wanjiru Koinange and her step son David Njuno, had been charged for the murder of Mpoe and Paarsaiya Ole Kitu, a local wheat farmer.

The two were shot dead at close range by a suspected hired hit man riding on a motorcycle along the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway on December, 3 2010.

Prior to the killing, the land rights crusader was managing the 4,200 acre Muthera farm in Mau Narok on behalf of the Koinange family.

Nicholas Ngetich, Johnstone Sigei, Stephen Mwanga, Sanaga Mbukoi and Kiragu Macharia had also been charged alongside Wanjiru and Njuno before the Nakuru High court.

While acquitting Wanjiru and six accused persons, the court ruled that evidence provided by the state was based on suspicion and contained several loopholes which the prosecution failed to cover.