The family of 48-year-old Aisha Akinyi Abubakar, a senior Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) official who was murdered at her home, has broken the silence and given more details about the incident that preceded her death.
Speaking on Sunday, January 5, at a press briefing updating the public on what happened, her brother Ruadh Said revealed that while the robbers did not steal much during the incident, they stole documents belonging to the IEBC.
According to Aisha’s brother, the robbers managed to jump over two security walls before getting to the main gate and passing over the security guard.
Apart from the documents, the two robbers also stole a TV set.
IEBC Official in a polling station assisting voters
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“This death has shocked us, we went to the scene of the incident and found that they jumped over two walls and got into the house. They cut the dining grill and stormed into the house and conducted the heinous attack,” Said narrated.
“They didn’t steal much, just a TV set, and tore an IEBC bag, stole the documents that were inside, then left the bag on the floor and left,” he continued narrating.
According to Abubakar Hassan, Aisha’s son, the main aim of the robbers was to kill his mother.
“Whatever has happened has happened. My mom was attacked while at her home in Utange, and the way it seems, the aim was just to finish her, and they have succeeded,” Abubakar painfully narrated.
The family, who have maintained that they still don’t know why she was killed and why the documents were taken, is now calling on the government to find the robbers and put them in the book.
“We are calling on the government to find these people and prosecute them so that they don’t continue killing people carelessly,” the deceased’s brother pleaded.
A report by the police revealed that thugs broke into Aisha’s home at 3am on Sunday, January 5, and attacked her and her 18-year-old son using a knife.
The suspects are reported to have cut the official on the head, just above the right eye, and proceeded to inflict wounds on her son’s head as well.
The family has informed that her son is receiving treatment in the hospital and is recovering. Aisha was laid to rest on Sunday, January 5.
The IEBC team at the Bomas of Kenya during the tallying of the 2022 general elections.
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