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Prison warder sentenced to three-year jail term for fatal hit and run accident

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The prison warder who knocked to death a 22-year-old university student with his car along Mombasa Road in 2018 has been handed a three-and-a-half-year sentence and his driving license revoked.

Magistrate Elector Rianyi found that Dismus Gitenge Motongwa, who dumped the body of his victim after the incident, caused the death of Maureen Wambui, a Kenyatta University student, through careless driving.

The court also ruled that the cop had lied to the police by telling them he thought he had hit an animal near Ole Sereni Hotel where the accident had occured.

Motongwa was convicted last Thursday, his lawyer Danstan Omari asking the court at the time to grant him a non-custodial sentence.

He had been accused of driving some three kilometers with Wambui’s body stuck on the roof of his vehicle and damped it in South C.

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Milton Nyakundi is a veteran multimedia journalist with over 20 years of experience across broadcast, digital, and print media, who relocated to the United States in 2022 and is now the Senior International Correspondent for Kurunzi News based in Washington, DC, USA. He has previously worked with the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), among other high-profile roles with Kenya's first privately-owned media outlet - Kenya Television Network. His experience also include prominent roles as Media Consultant for Football Kenya Federation (FKF), and StarTimes Kenya. His career spans high‑stakes political reporting covering legislative and constitutional issues, elections, governance, and accountability across Kenya, Africa, and global arenas. He also boasts extensive sports journalism experience, covering local and international sports events, including leagues, tournaments and sports governance. He is well-known for his investigative depth, editorial leadership, and evidence-driven journalism that guides his consistent delivery of public‑interest storytelling across platforms.

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