Are the Kenyan Youths becoming so wild and obessessed with shedding blood? Cases of the Youth engaging in physical confrontations have lately been on the rise with most of these cases always leading to loss of life.
Just last week, a man in Molo killed his father over 300 shillings. As if the Molo murder was not enough, a 38-year-old man has today hacked his father to death before chopping his body into pieces in Silanga in Ol Kalou Constituency, Nyandarua County.
After the incident, the suspect is said to have gone to Silanga market where he confessed to his friends that he had killed his 63- year-old father for refusing to give him Sh6,000.
“My father tried to slap me when I demanded money from him. He said I was lazy and useless, (so) I attacked him to teach him a lesson,” the suspect reportedly told his neighbours.
“I do not regret my action, after all, he is dead. I used a jembe to kill him then sliced him into pieces,” he added.
The suspect, who described his father as arrogant and mean, said that he had saved his siblings from their father’s arrogance.
Mr John Maina’s mutilated body was discovered a few meters from his house.
Witnesses said that the man attacked his father with a machete before using a jembe to chop his body into pieces.
The suspect’s elder brother Mr Joel Mwangi got suspicious on spotting blood stains on the suspect’s hands and clothes.
“He (suspect) informed me that he found our father dead. When I asked him about the blood stains (on his hands and clothes), he claimed that he tried to load our father’s body into the family vehicle since he wanted to transport it to JM Memorial Mortuary,” said Mr Mwangi.
What is the best way to Curb this Violent and Deadly Confrontations between Parents and their Children?