Subukia man kills father over food

By Mathew Iteba

A DRUNKARD 22 year old man murdered his 65 year old father after a domestic squabble over food.
According to local police sources the man killed his father after stabbing him with a knife on the neck several times. Nakuru police boss Danile Kimeu who confirmed the incident said that the young man was later arrested and the weapon recovered.
Kimeu told journalists that the assailant had picked up a quarrel with his father after he came home late in the night and demanded food from his mother.

“Upon being advised to stop being childish by his father, the suspect pounced and attacked the old man using a knife he had been hiding in his pocket” held the source.

Eldoret Child theft syndicate
Elsewhere, Security personnel in Eldoret town recently detained a woman in connection with child theft, even as the government and stakeholders decry the vice.

Sources unveiled to our news desk that police arrested the woman after they found a couple with a baby that had been reported missing from a local hospital.
The suspect, the source said, had allegedly sold off the baby boy for Ksh 40,000 to a pair at Thiyo Farm in the outskirts of the town.
The incident took place at the Moi teaching and referral hospital. Police sources indicated that a nine months old baby went missing from the hospital child life service wing before investigations kicked off. The suspect is a subordinate staff at the hospital.

This comes after many cases of child thievery are on the increase in the country. In the neighboring Nandi district, police unearthed a child theft racket after 20 infants were found in a house near Kapsabet town.

A recent media survey report indicates that child trafficking in the country has been aggravated by the rising poverty index “Kenyan children are mostly trafficked within the country for domestic servitude, street vending, agricultural labor, herding, working as bar maids and commercial sex workers “says the report in part.