A gloomy mood has engulfed on Kapweria area, Emurua Dikirr constituency in Narok county, following a bizarre incident in which a 13-year-old girl hacked her mother to death with a Panga during a fight over a mobile phone.
According to Transmara East sub-county police boss Boniface Kavoo, the suspect picked up a panga and attacked her 55-year-old mother, inflicting deep cuts on her head. She succumbed to injuries after a lot of bleeding.
Neighbours who heard cries from the suspect’s homestead found the victim writhing in pain and pleading for help, according to Mr Kavoo.
“It’s a scenario where her mother wanted to repossess the phone her daughter was using to chat with. It seems the deceased was a strict mother, and she wasn’t happy about her girl doing a lot of communication without her knowledge. The suspect used all the means to fight her mother back, which ended in a fatality,” added the officer.
The teen suspect is said to have thrown the murder weapon into a pit latrine to conceal the evidence but later admitted to killing her mother for not allowing her some freedom.
The deceased’s body has been taken to Kapkatet Hospital mortuary, while the suspect is being held at Emurua Dikiir police station.
