Lawyer Assa Nyakundi Back to work, Representing Another Murder Suspect

Photo: Controversial Lawyer Assa Nyakundi/courtesy

City Lawyer Assa Nyakundi is back to work representing a client who is facing serious murder charges.

Lawyer Nyakundi who is accused of murdering his son is representing Former Nyeri Senior Magistrate, Pauline Omungala, who is also charged with murdering her husband Lawyer Robert Chesang.

Lawyer Chesang was murdered in cold blood at his Lukenya home on February 17.

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Photo: Lawyer Chesang’s home where he was shot dead/courtesy

Pauline Omungala is fighting to be allowed to sell the multi-million properties owned by late Chesang. This has been an uphill task due to wrangles from Chesang’s family.

But lawyer Assa Nyakundi yesterday told Judge George Odunga in Machakos High Court that his client is faced with challenges of meeting her daily needs together with her children’s following her interdiction without salary.

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Photo: Chesang’s widow Pauline Omung’ala/courtesy

In an application, Nyakundi wants title deeds of Omugala’s property surrendered to enable her dispose them off, claiming she had “run out of means of livelihood”.

“It is my humble submission at this point that my client needs those documents (title deeds) urgently so that she can organise her life and sell some of the property. Actually, she was interdicted without salary,” Nyakundi told Justice Odunga.

The former Senior magistrate who is out on bond, also seeks to have access to her matrimonial home in Moke Gardens, Athi River,saying she did not have a place to live with her children.

However, through Lawyer Assa Nyakundi’s legal prowess, Judge George Odunga allowed Chesang’s widow to have access to the properties on her name.

But the irony of it all emanates from the fact that Nyakundi is still facing an active murder case.

Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti said detectives are preparing to charge him afresh with murder.

Nyakundi was initially charged with manslaughter, a move Kinoti said was a culmination of a conspiracy by detectives who were handling the case, and who are now interdicted for subverting justice.

Nyakundi is accused of shooting his son to death, claims it was accidental, but police insist they have evidence to show that he murdered him.

He was charged with manslaughter on April 26 and released on a Sh 300,000 cash bail with an alternative of Sh 1 million surety bond after being arraigned before a Kiambu court over the murder of his son, Joseph.

Nyakundi was accused of murdering his son under unclear circumstances In March but the prosecution opted, at the time, to prefer a manslaughter charge which under Section 205 of the Penal Code attracts life imprisonment upon conviction.

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