A middle-aged man tragically ended the lives of both himself and his 66-year-old mother on Tuesday at their residence in Githunguri, Kiambu County, following a heated domestic dispute.
Simon Kimani, 40, is said to have forcefully pushed his mother, Mercy Maingi, into a well before subsequently taking his own life by leaping into the same well.
According to sources within the family, the conflict between Kimani and his mother stemmed from a significant disagreement regarding the beliefs and practices of a religious group he had become involved with.
This contentious religious group advocated for practices such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and polygamous marriages, both of which his mother vehemently opposed and had previously cautioned her son against.
“What I understand from the locals is that he recently joined a cult-like religion and eventually married two wives. The mother was opposed to that and they had a fallout,” Ikinu location chief Peter Kariuki is quoted by the Nation.
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Kiambu County’s disaster management department has since successfully retrieved the bodies from the well.
In the meantime, the Githunguri police are conducting a thorough investigation into this tragic incident.
“We wait for the post-mortem to authoritatively say what really happened,” Ikinu OCS Kamenya Mwita said.
Kirinyaga woman stabs boyfriend do death
In a related story, a 38-year-old woman last week killed her boyfriend in Kagio town Kirinyaga West sub-county by stabbing him five times before surrendering to the police.
According to the police report, the couple, who had a troubled relationship, were living together along Baricho Road where they had rented their house.
“She stabbed him five times; inflicting two wounds on his thighs, and one in his private parts. The two have rented the house along Baricho Road in this trading center, and we’ve been informed that they both come from the Gichugu constituency,” said area police chief Moses Koskei.
