35 to testify over envoy’s murder

By LUCIANNE LIMO

The prosecution will call 35 witnesses in the case where two suspects are charged with murder of  acting Venezuelan ambassador in Kenya Olga Fonseca in July last year

A driver at the Venezuelan embassy, who is the first prosecution witness, said there was commotion at the residence of Fonseca the night she was murdered.

Francis Mwangi narrated how he heard commotion while he was in his room within the residence of the embassy.

“I peeped outside and saw my colleague, Peter the cook, shaking. When I came out. I asked him what was wrong and he just kept quiet and went to his room,” he added.

Mwangi added that he then saw Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, who is accused of the murder, within the compound.

Mwangi recalled that Mohamed appeared and told him he was looking for some documents from Fonseca and ordered him to go back to his room.

Mwangi said Dwight Sagaray, a Venezuelan diplomat charged with the murder of his boss, invited Mohamed to live with him in the embassy residence after the death of Fonseca.

The prosecution will call witnesses, who are mainly embassy staff, to show how Mohamed held several meeting with guards to allegedly plan the murder.

During the opening of the trial, the prosecutor told court that Sagaray and his co-accused Mohamed, with the help of embassy guards, killed the envoy on the night of July 26 and 27, last year.

The court heard that Dwight made it possible for Mohamed to access the embassy’s residence and offices yet he was not an employee.

According to the prosecution, Dwight and Mohammed planned to kill the envoy so that he could take over the position of ambassador.

The envoy was found strangled at her residence in Nairobi.