

His other brothers, Godfrey Ligambi and Boniface Shamala are happy that he has been arrested. Seth’s wayward ways and constant caning of the family forced his brother, Dokta Shamala who is a preacher, to run away from home. Seth’s mother, Cherekira Ayemba, says that, “The beatings from my son who drinks and smokes bhang impaired my hearing.” She is currently recuperating in hospital. He will do what he wants and feels like and later take it out on us if we dared to report him to the sub-chief or police.” He has told her several times that he wants to sleep with her, as he wields a machete or knife.”ĭuring such incidents, the elder Shamala revealed, “the mother used to cry and we would run and spend the night in the bush because he is a man of his words. The old man further revealed that his son “loves his mother in a wicked way after smoking bhang and often wants to sleep with her. Seth’s father says he is relieved that his 40-year-old son has been arrested as he “once raped my wife, his own mother.” Timothy Shamala, the village head who called police after discovery of the buried body parts agrees with the police.


Joseph Chebil, the Shinyalu OCPD, said, “Three other men linked to the murder are former prisoners who are suspected to have raped the woman before killing her and slashing her six-year-old son.” He added that they are not ruling out ritual killing, given that the woman’s private parts were mutilated and buried in the plantation. The boy was admitted to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret from St Elizabeth Mukumu Hospital in Kakamega. Her attackers also slashed her six-year-old son with a machete. The deceased’s private parts were found buried in a sugarcane plantation.
