BodaBoda Rider Kills Passenger Over A Ksh100 Fare

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A bodaboda operator in Kakamega county has been charged with the murder of a fourth year student of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST). Appearing before High Court Judge Jesse Njagi, Benson Avina Eredi alias Bishop was accused of murdering Clement Omollo Ogendo, a passenger he had carried on his bodaboda on Tuesday, February 7, jointly with others not before court.

The bachelor’s degree student of Information Technology had boarded the accused’s motor cycle to ferry him home after a drinking spree with his colleagues at a club in Kakamega town, the Standard reported. The court heard that a guard manning the club’s entrance, Hamisi Kassim, saw Bishop who was among his colleagues waiting for passengers pick Omollo from the gate but never returned that night. Kassim said he later heard the suspect’s colleagues saying he had attacked a customer who refused to pay him. He said he wanted to be paid before reaching the destination but the customer insisted to pay after arrival.

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The disagreement between the two was reported to have escalated with the accused assaulting the deceased at around 1am. The body was discovered on the roadside with severe head injuries and disfigured mouth. Two people who had been held in connection to the murder were released unconditionally after the prosecutor turned them into witnesses. Jackton Oduor and Godwin Oketch told the court they were drinking with the late before he excused himself saying he had to wake up earlier the following day to run his snacks kiosk. Omollo’s girlfriend Emmaculate Anyango who they were cohabiting together in a residential house notified the duo that she had not seen him.

It was then that they were informed by area residents to visit Kakamega County General Hospital after it emerged police had picked a body of a man with head injuries from Lurambi. Court documents indicated the accused had asked the deceased to pay him KSh 100 before reaching the destination while the student preferred to pay after arriving. The suspect was later arrested after his colleagues insisted on asking him what had happened to the customer he had ferried on that day. According to a pathology report conducted by Kakamega’s Chief Pathologist Dixon Mchana, Omollo died out of severe head injuries secondary to blunt force trauma, following assault. Bishop denied the charges and was released on KSh 500,000 bond with a surety of similar amount pending the hearing on May 27.

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