Nchi gani nyingine inafanya upuuzi kama huo wenu? Taja hata nchi moja. Wahuni nyie. Hamjastaarabika.
leta mifugo yako halafu tuone nyoko wewe mbona hamuingizi shamba ya Uhuru Taita Taveta? Matatizo yenu ya u-squatter msituletee sisi! Tanzania ni nchi huru na hairuhusu cross-border grazin, yet on someone farm! End of story!!
Nchini kwenu mnauwawa kama mbwa halafu unaongelea ustaarabu! Tutapiga minada tutakavyo na mkileta fyokofyoko tutawalipua! Si mlikuwa mnasema ardhi yenu! Njooni mkifikiri Kilimanjaro, Arusha ni lawless Karamajong..!
Delamere's son arrested after second fatal shooting
Friday, May 12, 2006 — updated on July 03, 2020
Mr Thomas Cholmondeley .
A son of Lord Delamere, who shot dead a man on his sprawling estate in April last year, was last night under arrest after another fatal shooting on his father's farm.
The latest victim was a 37-year-old stonemason, who was found walking on the family's vast Soysambu ranch in Gilgil, with four other men.
Dead impala
Mr Thomas Cholmondeley, who last year was arrested and charged with shooting dead Kenya Wildlife Service ranger Samson Ole Sisina at the same ranch, allegedly told police that the five men were armed with machetes, bows and arrows and were accompanied by two dogs.
They were carrying a dead impala, according to a report in the Occurrence Book at Gilgil police station. Mr Cholmondeley, son of the 5th Baron Delamere - one of Kenya's most notorious colonial settlers - is said to have told police he believed the men had entered the estate intending to poach wild animals.
According to the report, based on a statement Mr Cholmondeley is alleged to have made to police, Mr Cholmondeley and his friend, Mr Carl Jean Pierre Tundo, were walking on the estate when they bumped into the five men at around 6.30pm on Wednesday.
The 46-year-old rancher claimed the men set the dogs on him and his friend when he ordered them to stop and identify themselves.
Mr Robert Njoya who was killed on Wednesday evening.
Mr Cholmondeley reportedly said he shot dead the two dogs as they attacked him and that stonemason Robert Njoya collapsed bleeding heavily after being hit in the pelvis by one bullet.
Mr Cholmondeley and Mr Tundo called a vehicle to take Mr Njoya to Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital in Nakuru, but he bled to death on the way. Mr Njoya's four companions vanished in the thicket.
Police said Mr Cholmondeley had opened fire with a .303 Lee Enfield rifle – the same type issued to the British Army and colonial forces during the first and second world wars – and fired four rounds. The gun was loaded with five bullets.
The Rift Valley provincial police chief, Mr Everett Wasige, said Mr Cholmondeley and Mr Tundo had reported the shooting to officers at Elementaita police station, where the two were taken into custody.
They alerted Mr Wasige who, when he learned that Mr Cholmondeley was involved in the shooting, called police commissioner Mohamed Hussein Ali, who ordered his immediate arrest. Mr Tundo was also arrested.
Police chiefs yesterday said the rancher and his friend will remain in custody as detectives tried to verify his version of what happened.
They appealed to Mr Njoya's four companions to record statements at Rift Valley provincial police headquarters.
Late yesterday, Mr Cholmondeley, Mr Tundo and their lawyers accompanied police to the scene where officers were to reconstruct events which led to the killing. Detectives, led by Mr Wasige and provincial CID chief Maurice Amatta, also spent several hours at the scene of the shooting trying to recover spent cartridges.
Mr Wasige said detectives were yet to establish how Mr Chomondeley had acquired the rifle, since the Government had repossessed his previous gun – a magnum revolver – after he killed Mr Ole Sisina.
Mr Njoya's home is at Kiongururia village, across the Naivasha-Nairobi highway and opposite the Delamere 5,000 acre ranch. It is about 15 kilometres from the main gate.
His elder brother and the headteacher of Kiboko Primary School, Mr Philip Mbugua, said Mr Njoya had been tending to his crops a few hours before he was killed.
Mr Mbugua dismissed suggestions that his brother, a father of four, could have been poaching at the expansive Soysambu farm.
The visibly shaken Mr Mbugua said he had been told of his brother's death by fellow teachers when he reported to school early yesterday morning.
He claimed his brother and the others were walking home using a shortcut through the Delamere farm.
The spot where the shooting took place is about four kilometres inside the farm and past a wire fence, nine kilometres from the main gate on the road leading to the farm. It is surrounded by bush. There were no paths visible when the
Nation visited the scene.
The Njoya family said they were thinking of hiring a private pathologist to conduct the post mortem examination with the Government pathologist.
Sarah Waithira, 70 grandmother of the late Robert Njoya Mbugua who was killed by the Lord Delamere's son Tom Chomldelay weeps at their home Kiungururia in Nakuru. Photo/Joseph Kiheri
Mr Wasige said Senior Superintendent Geoffrey Mwangi of the CID had been detailed to lead investigations.
The carcasses of the two dogs and that of an impala were handed over to the Nakuru district veterinary officer, Dr Michael Cheruiyot who said he would make public the result of his examinations.
Dr Cheruiyot said the results of the examination would be made public later.
According to the Delamere family, no statement had been taken from Mr Cholmondeley and Mr Tundo by the time they were returned to the scene.
The family source said the two were surveying an area to build a house when they stumbled on people they suspected were poachers. They said Mr Cholmondeley approached the people wanting to know who they were and why they were on the ranch.
Dogs were allegedly unleashed on them and Mr Cholmondeley fired four shots which killed the dogs.
After last year's fatal shooting on the ranch, a major row broke out between Maj Gen Ali and CID chief Joseph Kamau, on the one hand, and Attorney General Amos Wako and the then Director of Public Prosecution Philip Murgor, on the other, after the AG's office abruptly terminated a murder charge against Mr Cholmondeley.
The AG's decision was roundly condemned by the Law Society of Kenya, Parliament and a cross-section of Kenyans. Maj Gen Ali and Mr Kamau successfully asked National Security minister John Michuki to seek a meeting with President Kibaki to discuss the matter.
A few days after the meeting, Mr Murgor was fired and replaced by Mr Keriako Tobiko as the Government tried to cool an outpouring of public anger over the rancher's acquittal.
A public inquest into the killing of the KWS ranger ordered by Mr Wako is still pending before the Nakuru Chief Magistrate's court.
Report by Stephen Muiruri, Michael Njuguna, Watoro Kamau, Sam Kiplagat and Simon Siele
A son of Lord Delamere, who shot dead a man on his sprawling estate in April last year, was last night under arrest after another fatal shooting on his father's farm.
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