Makadara magistrate who was shot by police while in court is dead
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Makadara Principal Magistrate Monica Kivuti is dead following injuries she sustained after being shot by police while in court
Makadara Principal Magistrate Monica Kivuti is dead following injuries she sustained after being shot by police while in court.
The magistrate succumbed to injuries sustained from a shooting incident involving a Senior Police officer on Thursday.
A family source and her colleagues who did not wish to be quoted by the media confirmed that Kivuti died Friday.
She died at the Nairobi Hospital where she had been transferred after the shooting incident.
A source at Nairobi Hospital said she passed at 11 pm.
Her family said the body was moved to Lee Funeral Home.
Makadara Magistrate Kivuti had been shot and injured in the leg and chest.
She was rushed to Metropolitan Hospital and later transferred to Nairobi Hospital where she succumbed.
On Friday, an urgent blood appeal was made to help save her life.
“Urgent appeal for blood donation. This is to kindly request blood donation for Hon Monica Kivuti,” Law Society of Kenya (LSK) male representative at the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) Omwanza Ombati said.
Kivuti was shot on Thursday afternoon at the Makadara Law Court after she made a ruling in a case involving a policeman’s wife.
The judiciary said the magistrate had “canceled the bond for an accused person who had jumped bond and had failed to offer satisfactory explanations for jumping bond”.
“Immediately this decision was pronounced, a person shot at the magistrate and injured her on the hip,” it said in a statement.
The officer, identified as Chief Inspector Samson Kipchirchir Kipruto, who was in charge of a police station in Londiani in Kisumu, pulled out a gun and shot the magistrate, injuring her.
Other officers in court responded immediately, with one of them shooting the offending policeman and killing him.
In the process, three other officers were injured, a police report said.
Kipruto had traveled from his workstation in Londiani to attend a court case where his ailing wife Jenniffer Wairimu, 48 years was an accused person.
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In the case, she is accused of obtaining money by false pretense amounting to Sh2.9 million.
The woman had pleaded to be released on cash bail but the magistrate turned down the plea.
This is after she absconded in court sessions over sickness.
A warrant of arrest was issued against her.
When she appeared on Thursday, June 13, her bail terms were canceled and the magistrate ordered she be remanded at the Lang’ata Women’s prisons.
This angered Kipruto who sneaked into the court through the magistrate’s door and fired shots towards Kivuti injuring her on the chest and left hip.
His colleagues who were present fired at him and killed him on the spot.
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