Son of murdered Kilifi IEBC manager identifies alleged attackers in court

The son of the slain Kilifi County IEBC manager Aisha Akinyi Abubakar identified the two suspects in court as people who broke into their house and attacked them, killing his mother.

Qassim Mrisho identified Bryan Templer Oyare as the person who hit him on the head that morning. He also identified Sunday Otieno.

Mrisho was testifying before Justice Wendy Micheni in a matter where Joseph Sunday Otieno, alias Brian Shikuku and Mudari and Bryan Templer Oyare are charged with killing Aisha Akinyi Abubakar.

He said that around 3am, he heard some movement in the house’s corridor and rushed to check but saw nothing.

On his way back to his room, he met Oyare who demanded he hand over his phones.

“I told him to just pick everything they wanted and leave, but he hit me on the head and for some seconds I was unconscious,” Mrisho told the court.

The 18-year-old student at Lights Academy told the court he rushed to his mother’s room and found her breathing heavily.

“I jumped through the wall and requested help from our neighbour’s. One of the Maasai guards at our neighbour’s residence helped me pick up my mother, and we rushed her to Premier Hospital,” Mrisho told the high court.

Her other son, Abubakar Abdulrahman Hassan, told the court that his mother had neither expressed any fears not received any threats.

Hassan, however, told Justice Wendy that her mother had told her that her position was highly contested.