17/01/2025
TAKE UP BABY PENDO CASE, NYONG'O TELLS CJ KOOME
Kisumu Governor Prof.Anyang' Nyong'o is appealing to the Chief Justice Justice Martha KOOME to take up the matter of the late Baby Samantha Pendo and ensure the case progresses with the speed it deserves.
In a signed press statement ,Nyong'o said the reasons given for the recent aborted plea taking are not convincing but appear to be mere scape goats.
"We are being told that the plea couldn't take place because the Judge who had been handing the case has been transferred"he said in the statement.
He called on Justice Martha Koome to urgently investigate why such a high profile case is being delayed on flimsy grounds while the suspects are walking around freely and still in employment of the Kenya Police Services.
Nyong'o further said that the Judiciary and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions must prioritize the Baby Pendo case by ensuring that the suspects are made to take plea as soon as possible as Kenyans and the whole world wants to know what happened during the fateful night the police killed the baby.
He lamentably recalled that seven years ago ,police office quelling post-election protests in Kisumu ,brutally killed a six-month-old Baby Samantha Pendo at their Nyalenda home.
"The cold-blood murder of an innocent baby who knew nothing about elections shocked the world and horrified Kenyans and it really annoys that seven years later Baby Pendo's family are still waiting for Justice"read part of the statement further.
Nyong'o added that the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions had directed that the 12 officers be charged with murder and were to face other charges of r**e and murder.
He also stated that the continued postponement of the case is unacceptable and blatant violation of Human Rights.
