The 2019 KCSE candidate is among three suspects who will be charged with the murder of a physics teacher. Peter Omari, 32, was murdered around 10.30pm on Thursday, just after he arrived home from school, where he had been supervising night preps.
He was killed behind his house in what police believe was a revenge mission. “I was about to sleep when I heard commotions and then a loud scream at around 10pm. On responding we found the teacher writhing in pain next to his house,” said Peter Kimani, a neighbour. “We found him bleeding behind his house. He had been hit on the head with a heavy blunt object that opened his skull. He died just before we could rush him to hospital.”
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Earlier in the day, the teacher had confiscated a mobile phone from the arrested student as the other two suspects were sneaking it to him over the school fence. Omari was a teacher at Hopewell Secondary School in Barut, Nakuru county.
Police believe the two suspects decided to waylay the teacher. In 2017 the two were caught sneaking a mobile phone to another student.
Earlier in the day, the teacher had confiscated a mobile phone from the arrested student as it was been given to him by the other two suspects over the fence.
Police believe that the other two accomplices decided to way lay the teacher because in 2017 they had been caught again giving a mobile phone to another student.
The teacher’s wife is a matron at Hopewell school and had been left behind to see to it that all students slept well, not knowing that attackers were waiting for her husband across the road where they live.
The school director Vitalis Kahenda described Omari as a dedicated teacher who was humble and focused.
He said that drug abuse and consumption of illicit brews is rampant in the area and sometimes drugs have found their way into the school.
The Maseno university student was taking a diploma cause in education at Mt. Kenya University Nakuru campus. The suspects were arrested in a nearby homestead which has been an on and off den for illicit brews and drugs.
“In 2017 we found out that people living in the same homestead were selling drugs to our students. We informed the local administration who acted on it but it appears to be coming back. There is still much to do to curb this,” said Kahenda.
Area chief David Kering said that he was informed about the incident by neighbours after which he informed the police.
Omaris’s mother Florence Kerubo said that she has lost a loving firstborn son. She said that she has spent a lot of money in educating him and had high hopes in him.
His body is at Nakuru Level five Hospital while the three suspects are being held at Rhonda police station.
Nakuru OCPD Samuel Obara confirmed that the three suspects were being held at Rhonda Police Station pending investigations.
“Several people have recorded statements on the matter and we have launched investigations. The suspects will be arraigned in court the soonest possible,” said Obara.