Orwaki village in Nyakenimo Sub-Location in Nyamira County was plunged into mourning on the night of May 17, 2025, after a son allegedly murdered his 62-year-old father before setting his body ablaze.

Frankline Stima Ouru, 20, accused his father of seducing his wife.

Ouru arrived at his father’s house at 8pm accompanied by his wife, Dorcas Mogaka, and picked a quarrel with his father.

He claimed his father had always wanted to take his wife, but she had turned down his sexual advances

Fight ensued

During the confrontation, a fight ensued where the son rushed to his house and came back with an axe, which he used to hit the father on the head, killing him on the spot.

According to Hellen Kemuma, the deceased’s wife, the son had come to their house bitterly complaining that his wife had reported to him that his father was making sexual advances towards her.

“I was surprised when my son came crying that his father, who lived with a disability, wanted to take his wife,” Kemuma told The People Daily at her home yesterday.

“My daughter and I watched helplessly as my son, together with his wife, attacked my husband, hacking him with an axe before using a mattress to set him ablaze,“ she tearfully narrated.

“I made frantic efforts to call the area chief Joshua Aima and the OCS at Nyamusi police station, but by the time help arrived Mzee was already dead,” she added.

Police officers from Nyamusi arrested the son, but the wife escaped.

The body was taken to Nyamira County Referral Mortuary by police.