Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi told the Senate on Wednesday, July 10 that the government has no budget to save Kenyan facing execution in Saudi Arabia.
Stephen Bertrand Munyakho, the Kenyan man facing execution needs KSh 150 million as blood money.
The 50-year-old has spent 13 years in several prisons in the Gulf kingdom.
Stephen was sentenced to death by sword after being involved in a fight with a Yemeni colleague in April 2011 which led to the death of the Yemeni.
Mudavadi revealed that Stephen’s family had raised KSh 10 million.
“The family has raised Ksh.10 million. There is no budgetary provision for the government to settle this kind of situation whether in Saudi or any other country,”
“The government is trying to do what it can to see if this matter can be resolved differently and if the family who lost the individual can perhaps climb down from the high level of Ksh.150 million,” Mudavadi added.
WoK previously reported on the story of Dorothy Kweyu who is seeking to raise KSh150 million to save her son.
Kweyu revealed her son had no intention to kill and said the victim’s family had stepped back on their reciprocal right to revenge.
“While appreciating the victim’s family for stepping back, we still have to fulfil the court’s order to pay the equivalent of KSh150 million by May 15, 2024, for him to be released,” an appeal statement read.
