Son kills father in quarrel over wood logs in Makueni

“My husband fell some trees around our home compound and obtained some parts which he intended to build a structure for goats. Then he left for some work at Makindu which took a few days before returning home,” Ndinda Mwania, Kavita’s mother told the standard

On that fateful day when Muli returned home he bitterly quarreled his son after sighting the smoking kiln adjacent to his house with his logs missing.

“Although we all took tea together, my husband kept on questioning why Kavita had decided to make charcoal with his logs. He (Muli) went on with his work and our son left for a nearby market,” she added

He would later return seemingly drunk before going straight to his house for some few minutes, “He returned drunk. He slept briefly and when I was in the bedroom is when I heard someone cut something several times. When I came out I found my son on the act, slashing his father with a panga on his head,” she revealed

Here she would face a difficult task of confronting her son who had the killer weapon at hand, “he had cut him more than 7 times on the head. He was still alive but profusely bleeding. I loudly called out for assistance as my killer son walked away,”.

It would take the intervention of the village elder, Peter Kaumbulu and villagers to arrest the suspect who was finding his way to hide in a nearby hill.