Unknown men raided the home of Charles Emoto, a primary school headteacher in Butemba Village, Busia County and killed him before vanishing with cash.
According to his wife Prisca Amoit, the Ongarima Primary School head was attacked by thugs carrying guns and axes.
Recounting the ordeal, Amoit said the thugs made away with two boxes of cash which belonged to a table banking group in the area.
“I don’t know what was really happening. They made sure that he was dead before heading to where I was,” Prisca Amoit, the deceased wife narrated.
“I tried hiding under the bed, but they pursued me with a gun,” she added.
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According to her, they threatened to kill her as they pointed a gun on her forehead.
“Give us the box or I kill you,” one of the attackers ordered Amoit.
Further, the deceased teacher was a treasurer of a savings group in the area.
Reports indicated that the primary school head was shot in the stomach on Thursday December 14, with the bullet exiting from the back of his waist.
Probe into Headteacher murder
On his part, Teso South Police Commandant, Amos Abasa, noted that investigations had been launched.
However, he urged locals to avoid keeping money in their houses for their own safety.
Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Teso Branch Secretary General, Geoffrey Ekasiba, decried the rise of murder cases in the area.
Further he urged the security agents to beef up security in the area highlighting recently reported murder cases.
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“Recently, the thugs raided a woman in Amase where they stole money,” he pointed out.
According to reports, the robbers escaped on a waiting motorbike into the neighboring Uganda where the safe boxes were found without money.
Police in Busia County launched investigations into the murder.
However, they indicated they were closing in on close friends of the deceased as they suspected it to be an inside job.
According to reports, the amount in question was about Ksh60,000.
