Police in Ololulung`a area in Narok County are holding a 21-year-old woman who is alleged to have stabbed her husband to death during a domestic brawl.
Confirming the incident, Narok South Sub-county Police Commander Magdalene Chebet said the 23-year-old husband identified as Patrick Onyinkwa came home drunk at around 4.30 pm yesterday and picked a quarrel with his wife Nancy Njambi who grabbed a knife and stabbed him in the left side of the chest.
He died on the spot and the body was taken to Narok Referral Hospital mortuary pending postmortem and further investigations into the incident.
Chebet said the suspect would be arraigned in court as soon as investigations were complete to face murder charges.
The suspect had initially told the police that her husband had fallen on a nail and injured himself on the left side of the chest but during investigations, police recovered the suspected murder weapon with bloodstains on it.
A Kenya Sector Status Report on protection from gender violence released in October this year, citing a study by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, showed that 23.6 percent of Kenyans have witnessed or heard of cases of domestic violence in their communities since the introduction of COVID-19 containment measures.
The national GBV Hotline 1195 also received 810 cases in September compared to 646 cases in August this year, an increase of 25 percent. All cases received psychosocial first aid (PFA) and referral services.
Another study by the Ministry of Health and Population Council in April 2020 on COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, practices and needs revealed that 39 percent of women and 32 percent of men were experiencing tensions in their homes.
According to a police report, murder is still one of the leading crimes committed in Kenya every year second only to carjacking.
A 2018 police crime report showed that there were 2,774 murder incidents in the country in 2017 compared to 2,856 in 2018, an increase of three percent.
Another report put homicide rates in Kenya at 4.9 cases per 100,000 people in 2018.
