The Kenyan government will take all necessary measures to ensure the return of a Kenyan man facing execution in Saudi Arabia, according to Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing’Oei. In a statement on X, Sing’Oei mentioned meeting with Dorothy Kweyu, the mother of Stephen Bertrand Munyakho (Stevo), who is currently imprisoned in Saudi Arabia.
“While acknowledging the monumental challenge related to the case of her son, I assured Mama Dorothy and the family that the Government would take all necessary measures to help Stephen come back home,” PS Sing’Oei wrote on X.
This update follows Saudi Arabia’s agreement to postpone Munyakho’s impending execution, which was scheduled for Wednesday, May 15. Munyakho, who has been renamed Abdulkareem, has spent 13 years in various Saudi prisons after being sentenced to death by the sword for his involvement in a fatal fight with a colleague in April 2011. The colleague succumbed to injuries from the fight.
Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing’oei expressed gratitude on Monday, stating, “I am deeply grateful to inform that authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have kindly granted our request to postpone the impending execution of Stephen Munyakho (now known as Abdulkareem), to allow for further negotiations between all parties.”
Munyakho’s family in Kenya has been urgently trying to raise Ksh.150 million as payment to the family of the Yemeni colleague who died in the altercation.
