How 4 Friends Attending Birthday Party Died in Kitengela – Witness

A witness has come out to explain how four young men attending a birthday party were on Sunday, August 8, killed by a mob in Kitengela over suspicion of being livestock thieves.

The four, two brothers Fred Mureithi, 30 and  Victor Mwangi, 25, and their friends Mike George, 29, and Nicholas Musa, 28, had converged to celebrate Mwangi’s birthday when the unfortunate incident took place.

The witness revealed that the four unsuccessfully pleaded with the villagers to spare their lives.

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“They went where the 4 were sitting and attacked them by using rungus and using spears until they died. 

“They did not resist and even issued the villagers with contacts they would use to contact for easy identification. The villagers, however, heard none of it,” a witness narrated.

Their motorbikes and personal documents were also torched.

Another witness narrated that the four were killed by people known to them. He added that a civilian gun owner had to shoot in the air to disperse the irate crowd.

Police officers arrived at 11pm to collect the bodies. By this time, however, the culprits had already left. Their bodies were taken to city mortuary and marked as unknown.

The two brothers lived in a palatial home left to them by their mother Lucy Wanjiru who currently lives in the United Kingdom.

So inconsolable was Wanjiru when she heard of the demise of her only two children that she had to be hospitalised.

The brother’s uncle, Joseph Macharia, stated that Mwangi as a graphic designer while his brother Mureithi was a sound engineer.

“They were working and their mother always supported them financially. Mwangi was in charge of an ongoing construction project next to their house.

“They loved speed motorcycles and some time they would party during the weekend which is normal for young people,” Macharia stated.

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