Widow of Olympic champion Samuel Wanjiru urges media to cease publishing stories about his loss of life

Widow of Olympic champion Samuel Wanjiru urges media to cease publishing stories about his loss of life

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The widow of 2008 Olympic marathon champion Samuel Kamau Wanjiru has pleaded with the media to cease revisiting his tragic loss of life, saying continued stories traumatise her two kids, who’re at this time sufficiently old to comply with the protection and ask unsettling questions.

Speaking in Nyahururu alongside her legal professionals, Triza Njeri requested journalists to respect the household’s want for closure, as contemporary revelations about Wanjiru’s property and the decade-long inquest into his mysterious demise resurface.

Tormenting information

In the presence of legal professionals Wahome Ndegwa and Mathea Gikunju, the widow urged the media to contemplate the well-being of the kids – aged 18 and 15 – when publishing sensational stories. 

“My daughter is now 18 years old and can follow these reports. I plead for closure on this matter for the sake of the children,” she mentioned. 

Her name for closure was echoed by legal professionals Wahome and Mathea, who said that the courtroom had dominated Kamau’s loss of life as unintentional and that no attraction had been lodged in opposition to the choice. 

Addressing hypothesis concerning the late athlete’s property, Wahome declared, “I am as white as cotton.” 

The lawyer revealed that that they had found a bit of land in Nyahururu city belonging to the deceased, which had been transferred in 2016—5 years after the runner’s loss of life.

He added that that they had initiated the method of reclaiming it from a distinguished particular person within the city. 

Wahome, who had represented Njeri within the inquest held in Nairobi till he was compelled to step down after the late athlete’s mom, Hannah Wanjiru, demanded he be handled as a witness, blamed folks across the outdated woman for stopping her from therapeutic.

Hidden agenda

“The people around his mother had ulterior motives, focusing on property rather than justice. Their main agenda has always been the athlete’s assets,” he mentioned. 

He said that these eyeing the property ought to abandon their hopes, because the courtroom had granted Njeri the best to be the administrator of Wanjiru’s property, along with her and her kids because the rightful beneficiaries. 

Regarding claims in regards to the athlete’s monetary standing on the time of his loss of life, Wahome refuted allegations that he had huge quantities of cash. 

“The day he died, he had travelled from Eldoret to Nyahururu to withdraw Sh2 million, which had been advanced to him by his manager, Federico Rosa. The money was meant to help him deal with a criminal case he was facing,” Wahome mentioned. 

Kamau had been arraigned in a Nyahururu courtroom for unlawful possession of a firearm and threatening his spouse. 

“At that time, he owed me Sh600,000, which I was supposed to recover from the Sh2 million,” Wahome added. 

On the secure confiscated by police from the athlete’s home within the prosperous Muthaiga property in Nyahururu city, the lawyer mentioned that it didn’t include cash however quite land title deeds and journey paperwork. He defined that the police had taken the secure as a result of they suspected it contained an unlawful firearm. 

Conflicting outcomes

Regarding the inquest, which dragged on for over 10 years, Wahome and Mathea blamed former Chief Government Pathologist, Dr Moses Njue, for introducing a second report that contradicted an earlier unanimous conclusion reached by three pathologists, together with Njue himself. 

“The three pathologists, Njue (for the federal government), Dr Emily Rogena (representing the athlete’s mom) and Dr Peter Ndegwa (for Njeri), had unanimously agreed that Kamau’s accidents have been in step with a fall from a peak. 

“But the late Njue later introduced another report questioning whether the height of the fall was sufficient to cause death,” Wahome alleged. 

Kamau received Kenya’s first-ever Olympic marathon gold medal on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.