Parents of two Kianjokoma brothers who died in police custody testified about their last phone calls with the deceased.
John Ndwiga Gichuki and Catherine Ndwiga appeared before the Milimani court.
Their father Mr. Ndwiga, testified in court that her two sons, who run a pork business, called her several times on August 1, 2021.
Ndwiga stated that around 4 p.m., he spoke with his sons and they requested money for their business, which he provided.
Mrs. Ndwiga testified in court that she agreed with them to close the shop early due to the curfew.
She stated that they closed the shop at 6.30 p.m. and remained in contact until 9 p.m., but their phones went off at around 10 p.m.
“I talked to Emmanuel at 7 and he told me they were in Kianjakoma but they wanted to meet some friends before coming home, I told them not to stay long because of curfew,” she told the court.
Ndwiga testified in court that his wife informed him at 10 p.m. that the boys had not returned home and that their phones were off.
The couple went to bed and left the gate open so that if their boys returned, they could enter the house.
When they awoke the next morning, they didn’t see the boys, so they went to the market, where they learned that some boys had been arrested, and their sons were among them.
The parents then went to the Manyatta police station, where they were informed that no one with those names worked there.
The next day, they went to Runyenjes police station to see one of the police bosses.
“I told her I hadn’t heard anything, and she referred me to the DCIO, to whom I gave the timelines of my son’s disappearance, and he looked me in the eyes and kept quiet before telling me to go outside,” Ndwiga explained.
They were called back into the office after a few minutes and told to go to Manyatta police station and speak with the OCS.
At Manyatta, the OCS confirmed that the boys had been arrested, but they had jumped out of a moving vehicle.
Six officers, Benson Mputhia, Consolata Kariuki, Nicholas Cheruyoit, Martin Wanyama, Lilian Chemuna, and James Mwaniki, have been charged with Benson and Emmanuel Ndwiga’s murder.
