{"id":973623,"date":"2022-02-02T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/trans-nzoia-family-cries-for-justice-after-daughter-killed-over-sh6000\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T13:28:27","slug":"trans-nzoia-family-cries-for-justice-after-daughter-killed-over-sh6000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/trans-nzoia-family-cries-for-justice-after-daughter-killed-over-sh6000\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Nzoia family cries for justice after daughter killed over Sh6,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/fwxejavslmjolcze61fa7949aa8d6.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Loreen Naswa who was allegedly beaten to death by her employer&#8217;s sons for stealing Sh 6000.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">A family in Trans Nzoia County is crying for justice over the\u00a0death\u00a0of their daughter, allegedly killed by a neighbour who accused her of stealing Sh6,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>Loreen Naswa Fwamba, 23 and mother of a year-old boy, was reportedly\u00a0beaten\u00a0to\u00a0death\u00a0by members of a family where she worked as a house help in Machungwa village. <\/p>\n<p>The neighbour&#8217;s home is barely 50 metres away from Naswa&#8217;s parents&#8217; house where she had worked for the past five years.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the deceased&#8217;s father Patrick Wafula, his daughter had been summoned by her employer to help her weed a vegetable garden before she met her\u00a0death.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that Naswa was bartered to\u00a0force her to confess to stealing the money.\n<\/p>\n<p>Her brother Boniface Wanjala said he was confronted by his sister&#8217;s attackers while herding family cows at a\u00a0field near their home.\n<\/p>\n<p>Wanjala claimed, they frog-marched him to his father&#8217;s house, where they ransacked the house in search of the missing money. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two confronted me at a grazing field and forced me to lead them to our house where they searched for the money and afterwards frog marched me to their home,&#8221; Wanjala told <em>The Standard<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Wanjala said they demanded he and his sister produce the money.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They locked us inside the house, demanding that we produce the missing money. They later ordered me out before they continued to attack my sister using a wooden bar and a whip,&#8221; said Wanjala.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said despite pleas from the sister, they continued to beat her.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tried to plead with them to spare my sister&#8217;s life by offering a cow to compensate the lost money, but they refused,&#8221; a tearful Wanjala narrated. <\/p>\n<p>He said after the beating, they dragged her sister outside as he helplessly watched.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/honqpdslsj5nw2sfkn61fa7f9562c00.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Patrick Wafula, Loreen Naswa&#8217;s father.<\/strong> [Obare Osinde, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The father said when he had of his daughter\u2019s predicament rushed to the neighbour&#8217;s home and found his daughter lying motionless on the ground.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey asked me to take her away, but I declined,&#8221; Wafula said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said two officers from Bikeke police post arrived at the home and directed the attackers to take Naswa to hospital.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The officers briefly talked with my neighbour inside her house and then instructed that the two men rush my daughter to the hospital before they left on a motorcycle,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said the woman and one of her sons used a motorcycle to ferry Naswa to Bikeke health centre, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.\n<\/p>\n<p>The father of 10, wondered why his daughter was so-treated\u00a0despite the years she had served her.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She should have called me so that we sort out the issue if indeed my daughter had stolen her money, &#8221; Wafula said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said the neighbour had sent emissaries to apologise and request to compensate for the\u00a0death.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After my daughter was pronounced\u00a0dead, my neighbour dispatched five people to me and told me that she is ready to compensate for the\u00a0death\u00a0of my daughter, but I turned them away,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Wafula said his family is only interested in justice for the\u00a0death\u00a0of his daughter.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a family, we want justice to prevail. We don&#8217;t need money. Let the law take its course,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;I am aware that some officers have been compromised to protect my daughter&#8217;s killers and I asked the government to intervene.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Trans Nzoia County Commander Jacinta Wesonga said the matter had been reported and no stone will remain unturned on the matter.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is unfortunate that life has been lost. We have launched an investigation and let me assure the family that no stone will remain unturned. What we want is evidence,&#8221; said Wesonga.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001436271\/trans-nzoia-family-cries-for-justice-after-daughter-killed-over-sh6-000\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loreen Naswa who was allegedly beaten to death by her employer&#8217;s sons for stealing Sh 6000. A family in Trans Nzoia County is crying for justice over the\u00a0death\u00a0of their daughter, allegedly killed by a neighbour who accused her of stealing Sh6,000. Loreen Naswa Fwamba, 23 and mother of a year-old boy, was reportedly\u00a0beaten\u00a0to\u00a0death\u00a0by members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}