{"id":100223,"date":"2024-10-24T13:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/saudi-arabia-postpones-stephen-munyakhos-execution-by-a-year\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T13:03:18","slug":"saudi-arabia-postpones-stephen-munyakhos-execution-by-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/saudi-arabia-postpones-stephen-munyakhos-execution-by-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia postpones Stephen Munyakho\u2019s execution by a year"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 24 \u2013 Saudi Arabia has postponed Stephen Munyakho\u2019s execution by a year to facilitate talks between the Kenyan mission in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia authorities and \u00a0the victim\u2019s widow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing\u2019oei said the period will allow both parties settle outstanding obligations.<\/p>\n

Munyakho who was convicted of murder in Saudi Arabia was set to be executed on November 26 after the family failed to secure blood money required to stop his execution.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am pleased to inform that after strenuous negotiations between our Mission in Riyadh, Saudi Authorities and the Widow, the impending execution of judgment against Stephen Munyakho (Abdulkareem) due for November 26, 2024 has been postponed for another one year to allow parties settle outstanding obligations, \u201che said.<\/p>\n

In July Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi stated that the Foreign and Diaspora Affairs ministry has no budget provision to settle Sh150 million\u00a0blood\u00a0money\u00a0for Munyakho.<\/p>\n

While appearing before\u00a0the Senate plenary Mudavadi said that\u00a0Munyakho\u2019s execution which was to happen in May 2024 was deferred after his office wrote a letter to the Saudi Arabia Foreign Affairs Minister negotiating and pleading to not have him executed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware of the case involving Stephen Munyako who was incarcerated in a case of manslaughter in Riyadh. I had an opportunity to meet the family and the mother of\u00a0Munyakho\u00a0but there\u00a0are no budgetary provisions for the government to settle this kind of situation,\u201d said Mudavadi.<\/p>\n

Mudavadi revealed that the\u00a0Munyakho\u2019s family had only \u00a0raised Sh 10 million to secure his release after the family of the deceased in Saudi Arabia mooted a proposal demanding\u00a0 financial compensation of Sh 150 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge that is there is that there is a proposal by the family of the person who died that they be compensated to a tune of Sh 150 million. The family has raised Sh 10 million and they continue to try and raise more\u00a0money\u00a0because this is what they call the\u00a0blood\u00a0money, some form of Financial compensation,\u201d added Mudavadi.<\/p>\n

Munyakho\u00a0was sentenced to death in the Islamic state back in 2013 on a case involving Manslaughter where he was involved in some sort of altercation with a colleague while working for the Middle East Nation.<\/p>\n

Blood\u00a0money\u00a0settlement option is a financial compensation under Islamic law which is paid to the victim or heirs of a victim in the cases of murder, bodily harm or destruction of property.<\/p>\n

Under Islamic law, Diyah or the \u201cBlood\u00a0Money\u201d can also lead to a reduction in sentence and in certain circumstances a pardon.<\/p>\n

It is currently applied in about 20 countries in the Middle East.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 24 \u2013 Saudi Arabia has postponed Stephen Munyakho\u2019s execution by a year to facilitate talks between the Kenyan mission in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia authorities and \u00a0the victim\u2019s widow. Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing\u2019oei said the period will allow both parties settle outstanding obligations. Munyakho who was convicted of murder in Saudi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}