A man surrendered to police in Nambale, Busia County, after he had allegedly slaughtered his wife over claims of a love triangle.
He reported the matter to the
police at Sangalo after the dramatic events.
The assailant is said to have met
his wife with another man in a sugarcane plantation, having an affair on March
4.
He told police he pretended that
he had not seen the incident in as much he was hurt.
He said the wife came home, and when
he questioned her, she became “arrogant”.
This angered and prompted him to
pick a panga that he used to slit her throat out of rage.
He then locked the body in the
house and left after he dropped the panga into the family pit latrine, police
said.
He later walked to a nearby police
station and surrendered.
Police visited the scene and found
the body of Mercy Nanjala, 35, lying in a pool of blood and moved it to the
mortuary pending autopsy and other procedures.
The killer weapon was later
retrieved from the latrine.
The man will face murder charges,
police said.
Police have been urging parties in
families to solve their differences amicably.
This follows an increase in cases
of murder out of domestic quarrels in the country.
Such cases form a huge portion of
those reported to police daily.
Elsewhere, a woman was arrested
after she strangled her eight-month-old baby girl out of rage in a village in
Kabarnet, Baringo County.
Police said the incident happened
in Turukwei village on March 4.
The 28-year-old woman had differed
with her husband few hours before she strangled and hit the baby on the ground
killing her on the spot.
The body was moved to Baringo
County Referral Hospital mortuary, awaiting postmortem.
The suspect was arrested and placed in custody before she was arraigned with murder.
