Police arrest Kitui chief accused of killing his farm worker

 

Police in Kitui have arrested the chief of Kavuta Location in Kitui Central and his son in connection with the alleged gruesome murder of a former farm hand.

Chief Billy Muthui Musembi was apprehended over the weekend and detained at the Itoleka Police Station in Katulani sub-County after months of evading investigators.


Musembi and his son, Thomas Jefferson Muthui, are accused of beating their former farm hand, Peter Musee Musomba, to death in broad daylight at the family homestead on December 19, 2018.

Following the incident, the administrator reportedly applied for a 45-day leave, went into hiding, and turned off his phone before returning to work last month.

According to detectives looking into the murder, the farm worker went to collect his wages when the administrator and other family members accused him of stealing maize from their store.

On the day of the incident, the chief was scheduled to host Kitui Central MP Makali Mulu for a public baraza at his office in Kavuta Market, Changwithya West Ward, where school bursaries would be distributed to needy students in the area.