By Judy Ogutu
Mrs Seenoi Sisina was a distraught woman, yesterday.
The widow of slain Kenya Wildlife Service ranger, Samson Ole Sisina, wept as she narrated how she has been waiting for justice over her husband’s murder in vain.
"I am very bitter…my case has not gone on. My husband was killed while working for the Government. I am very pained," she told journalists outside the Nairobi Law Courts.
Dressed in a blue dress and sandwiched between her relatives and advocate, Mr Martin ole Kamwaro, Seenoi broke down when Justice Muga Apondi sentenced Tom cholmondeley to eight months for killing stonemason Robert Njoya.
National outcry
In 2005, Cholmondeley had been charged with Sisina’s murder but the AG’s office terminated the case sparking a national outrage.
Thereafter, an inquest into his death was opened. The family then filed a constitutional application challenging the State’s decision to terminate the murder case.
Yesterday’s sentence was received with outrage from a cross-section of Kenyans who felt it was too lenient.
Safina national co-ordinator Dome Wamagata said the sentence showed there was justice for "the white and the black."
"If a white man kills it is manslaughter and if a black man kills it is murder. Why is a black man jailed for more years?" he asked.
