Capital FM’s Commercial Director Farida Idris Mohamed has been charged before Milimani Law Courts with threatening to kill her ex-lover.
Farida while appearing before Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, denied seven counts of threatening to kill her former boyfriend Hussein Aila Amaro.
Farida and Amaro are also former business partners.
She is alleged to have committed the offence through a series of threatening messages.
According to the prosecution, in June 2019, Farida sent Amaro indicating that she would eliminate him together with another person identified as Swarna.
In the first count, Farida was charged that on June 14, 2019, at 10:14 hours at unknown place within the Republic of Kenya without lawful excuses caused Hussein to receive a short message through Safaricom line to with “now tell me what the f*ck you will do to me and you see l will finish you and bloody Swarna combined,” threatening to kill him.
“On June 14, 2019, at 19:30 hours at unknown place within the Republic of Kenya without lawful excuses Farida directly caused Hussein to receive a short message (SMS) to his Safaricom line to wit ” l will kill you with my own hands and drag your body on hot tarmac until nobody can recognize that rotten body if yours then burry you before you proceed to hell “threatening to kill him,” the charge sheet reads.
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She faces charges of sending five other threatening messages to the complainant on June 14, 2019, and June 15, 2019.
The court granted her a Ksh300,000 or Ksh100,000 cash bail pending hearing and determination of the matter.
