The family of a senior Court Assistant at the Migori Law Courts who was shot dead while on her way to work poked holes into the investigations of her death.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday, May 10, the family implicated a police officer, who they claimed lived in the same neighbourhood and was well known.
According to the brother, witnesses revealed to them that they saw the man shooting the court assistant yet he had not been arrested.
The family also alleged that police officers in charge of the investigations had not visited them to inquire what had happened yet they were the ones who found the body of the court employee.
“My sister was murdered and we already know the person who did it. Since she died, no officer has come to speak to us to ask us about her death yet we were the ones who discovered her body.
"We have already been told by witnesses that the person who shot her was a police officer and everyone in this area knows yet no arrests have been made,” the brother lamented.
Further, the family representative raised concerns about a cover-up scheme by police officers investigating the case because a postmortem had already been conducted yet the police had not traced the bullet to the owner of the gun.
"We are concerned that the manner in which the DCI is handling this issue because there seems to be a cover-up. The postmortem was done, a ballistic report should tell us whose gun was used.
"Somebody whose identity is known is being accused of being involved in the shooting and the person is believed to be a police officer. Why have the police refused to listen to these allegations and use them as an intelligence report," he stated.
On Sunday, May 7, Chief Justice Martha Koome, in a statement revealed that the judiciary employee was tracked by a gunman on a motorcycle who shot her together with the motorcycle rider.
The CJ did not, however, reveal whether Auma was working on a sensitive case that could have placed her as a primary target by the perpetrators.
"It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that one of our staff members Phoebe Auma Suda, a Senior Court Assistant at the Migori Law Courts was shot dead on Friday while on her way to work.
"Auma was riding as a pillion when a lone gunman also on a motorcycle shot her dead together with the motorcycle rider," the statement read in part.
