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David Macharia<\/p>\n

4 June 2011<\/p>\n

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Nairobi \u2014 Olympic marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru’s mother Hannah Wanjiru was arrested Saturday after she dramatically interrupted a grave marking ceremony.<\/p>\n

A relative to Wanjiru’s wife Terezah Njeri Mr Paul Wanjohi was rushed to Nyahururu district hospital after he was hit on the back of the head with a piece of wood.<\/p>\n

A groundbreaking ceremony by the athlete’s grandfather Samuel Kamau Njoroge, 80, in readiness for the burial suddenly changed when Ms Wanjiru, armed with a machete, arrived and started hurling abuse to those present.<\/p>\n

“Who is that trying to bury my son before those who killed him are arrested”, she shouted as she entered the compound.<\/p>\n

She also broke into intermittent screaming. The screams attracted a large number of onlookers from the residential-cum-farming neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

When her expletives failed to move the gathering, Ms Wanjiru turned to the media who were recording the happenings and started throwing stones at them.<\/p>\n

As she left the compound with the press in her wake, she whipped out the machete from a large bag she was carrying.<\/p>\n

Drama unfolded as she threatened anybody who tried to restrain her as many scampered for safety.<\/p>\n

At one point, a fight broke out between two sides of the in-laws and it was during the fight that Mr Wanjohi was hit by a lady combatant.<\/p>\n

The incident shocked Wanjiru’s grandfather and also Njeri’s father James Muturi Githinji and other relatives who were present.<\/p>\n

Ms Njeri was whisked to safety by being assisted to leave the compound though the rear fence by a relative.<\/p>\n

A contingent of police led by the Nyandarua deputy OCPD Jacob Kanake arrived and took Ms Wanjiru and those who had accompanied her to Ol Joroorok police station.<\/p>\n

The grandfather, who on Friday evening gave the go ahead to the burial committee to make arrangements to inter Wanjiru had visited the two acre farm to identify the gravesite.<\/p>\n

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