Moses Dola, husband to a former NTV reporter Wambui Kabiru, yesterday told a Milimani court that his wife died after a violent fight over the volume on the radio.
In an emotional testimony in court, Mr Dola narrated that on the morning of the day his wife was found dead in their Umoja home, he had woken up at 7.30 am and turned on the radio at full blast.
He alleged that his wife was woken up by the deafening noise and quarrelled him over it when he went back to their bedroom.
"That was where the problem begun. Wambui had a problem with the music and she said in Kiswahili: 'Wewe ukiamka kwa hii nyumba kwani lazima kila mtu aamke?' (Must everyone in this house wake up when you wake up?)" the husband recounted.
Mr Dola is accused of having murdered his wife after evidence found by police at the scene of the murder suggested that Wambui had been strangled either by bare hands or a cloth.
The husband was a prime suspect in the murder case after he disappeared from Nairobi soon after the death of his wife and resurfaced in Naivasha three days later.
Mr Dola in his defence told the court that he experienced confusion after he returned home later that evening to find his wife still lying on the bed.
"Several attempts to wake her up were futile and that's when it hit me that Wambui had died," Mr Dola explained before breaking down.
Reports indicated that he had called both his mother in Kisumu and Wambui's father to inform them of Wambui's demise and afterwards disappeared.
"After calling my kinsmen on phone, I do not remember what transpired," he told the court and later narrated that in his confusion he boarded various buses to Nakuru and back to Nairobi where he alighted in Naivasha and presented himself to a police station.
The hearing of the case will continue on June 19 where presiding Judge Roselyn Korir will have the prosecution cross-examine the accused.
