Woman raped and killed in Sipili

Dennis Kipkirui

A middle aged woman was found raped and killed in Sipili market Friday morning. The woman famously known as 'Sigida' was known to be a reveler in one of the pubs in the centre. When Laikipia Rural Voices (LRV) scribe visited the scene of crime, he was greeted with horror written on people’s faces that came to witness the morning terror that had woken up the sleepy centre.

Curious crowd looking at the dead woman

It is reported that the woman left the pub at around 10 p.m. Her husband, only identified as John said that she was with her in the drinking spree and thought that she had left to their house. He was however shocked to realize in the morning that she was dead. It is not clear in whose company she was with when she left the bar.

The bar which is located near Ngarua Maarifa Centre is known for endless brewing of illicit brew called chang’aa and busaa.LRV had highlighted about this drinking den on 26^th June last year, coincidentally a week to exactly a year.

Members of the public who milled around the place turned heat on owners of the plots in the centre with overgrown bushes. Sipili Location, Chief Mr. Njuguna and police officer in charge of Sipili patrol base Corporal Omwenga directed owners to clear all bushes in unconstructed plots. Evidently, these plots are used to transact sexual escapades by revelers. 

It is suspected that the woman was lured into one of the bushes and over powered. She was found naked and surprisingly, a condom packet was stuffed in her mouth. It stunned the onlookers on the motive of the killer. “Even after raping and killing her, did they have to stuff the condom in her mouth?” paused one onlooker, “this is terribly inhuman".

The body was later collected and taken to Nyahururu District Hospital mortuary.