The mother of Emma Wanyota, the slain Eldoret based Vera Beauty College student whose mutilated body was found in Moi’s Bridge town in October 2019, recounted to the Eldoret High Court Judge the trauma she underwent at the scene after viewing the deceased body which was discovered in a shallow grave.
While testifying before Justice Stephen Githinji today, Beatrice Naliaka recalled emotionally the state in which her 23 year old
daughter’s body parts had been chopped off by her estranged boyfriend Mustapha Idd, 31, who is the main suspect in the murder case.
Naliaka told the Judge that their frantic search for the whereabouts of her slain daughter who had gone missing led them to a thicket, some few metres from her home near Moi’s Bridge town along the Eldoret-Kitale highway.
“When I arrived at the scene accompanied by my first born son, son in-law and some neighbours, we were horrified by the manner in which Emma’s body had been chopped off,” recalled Naliaka.
The court heard that some body parts that include legs, hands and her private part of the slain college student were missing from the scene, raising concern and suspicion about the motive that led to her gruesome death.
“Mustafa Idd had been threatening to kill my daughter severally after the deceased rejected the suspect’s sexual advances thus sparking his rage,” recounted Naliaka.
Beatrice Naliaka further told the court that her daughter had told her that Idd had been threatening to kill her if she continued to refuse his sexual demand.
She told the court that on that fateful day, she had left her daughter to go home alongside a solar agency team that was to install solar power at her home.
Blood spattered all over
But when she got home in the evening, she switched on the lights and found her house disoriented, and blood spattered all over.
Naliaka told the court that when she arrived home on September 30, 2019 at around 7 pm, she found her daughter missing, raising fear over her whereabouts when she could even reach her on her phone as it was switched off.
“I first suspected Mustafa to be behind her disappearance, because he had been threatening to kill my daughter. I decided to call Mustafa’s number and instead his mother answered the call. I told her that in case anything happens to my daughter Mustafa would be held responsible,” she said.
She told the court that she had called Emma’s siblings asking them about her whereabouts, but none of the family members knew anything, prompting her to report the matter to the Moi’s Bridge police station.
“While at the police station, I saw Mustafa, his mother and uncle coming to the station. He then told the officer in charge that he had come to report about a threat on his life from the family of the slain college student,’ said Naliaka.
Brutal murder of another young lady
She added that one of the officers who noticed the suspect, wondered why he was still walking free and yet he had been implicated in the brutal murder of another young lady the previous year.
She told the court that officer had identified Mustafa as the prime suspect in the murder case of a woman called Nancy from Kitale town.
“The officer then ordered his juniors to lock the suspect in the cell pending investigations into the disappearance of my slain daughter,” said Naliaka.
Later, she narrated that the police had arrived at her home and searched everywhere for any evidence before they left.
The suspect has been detained at Eldoret GK prison was arrested in possession of the slain lady’s laptop and phone which are being used as exhibits against him in the murder case he is facing at Eldoret High Court.
He allegedly hit her with a blunt object on her head then raped her before chopping off her legs, hands and private parts.
The Judge adjourned the hearing of the case to November 10, 2021 where three more prosecution witnesses testify against the accused person.