A woman was on Sunday allegedly battered by the father of her three-year-old son while threatening to end her life for failing to take care of his child.
Alphonse Kambu, a legal officer with the Division of Environmental Law and Conventions of the United Nation Environmental Programme (UNEP), is said to have gone to her Jacaranda home drunk while demanding for food from the househelp.
He pounced on the ex-lover, Ruth Gakii, when she failed to explain herself and beat her up insisting that she did not even know how to take care of his child.
“Immediately I came from the bedroom, he slapped, kicked me and smashed me against the wall. At this point, the househelp fled with the baby leaving me behind helpless,” Ms Gakii recounted.
Once the househelp exited, Ms Gakii said that the man attacked and threatened to kill her, forcing her to scream to alert neighbours who assembled to find the door locked therefore, could not save the situation. They resorted to calling the police who came in to find her covered in blood and took her to report the situation at Kiamumbi Police Station.
The accused, a foreigner from Papua New Guinea, is said to have immediately fled the scene and rides on the assumption that he is a UN official who enjoys legal immunity.
However, in an official email from the UN office of News and Media, the institution affirmed that their staff enjoy legal immunity but it does not vindicate them from criminal charges, therefore “it is the duty of all persons to respect local laws of their host country,” read the email.
The case got the attention of the Director of Public Prosecution, Keriako Tobiko, who said that if the woman had actually filed a restraining order against him, then the said immunity could be waived if Mr Kambu went against the court order.
Photos of the 26-year-old who got separated from Mr Kambu in 2012 went viral on social media after the founder of Okoa Dada Foundation Diana Okello sought to find Justice for the woman.
Ms Gakii is currently receiving medical assistance at Nairobi Women's Hospital as Kasarani Police conduct investigations on the matter.
