Family of slain KWS ranger seeks to meet Delameres before Cholmondeley burial

The family of Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) ranger, Samson ole Sisina, who was shot dead by the late Tom Cholmondeley now wants an urgent meeting with the Delamere family.

The late Sisina’s, son John Esho, a university student, says his family is ready to sit down with the father of the late Cholmondeley, who shot their father, to discuss what he said was ‘top secret.’

The family says it would be in the best interests of the late Cholmondeley’s family to honour the meeting request, after elders performed a ritual at their father’s gravesite recently.

“The meeting should happen in the shortest time possible between our family and the Delamare family,” said the 23-year-old Maasai Mara University student.

On Thursday, Mr Sisina’s widow and son said they would move to court to seek an injunction to block Mr Cholmondeley’s burial until their compensation demands are met.

The compensation package the family is claiming includes 49 cows, a pledge by the Delamere family to educate all the late Sisina’s children to university level, 27 acres of the Delamere’s expansive ranch and financing of all projects that the late Sisina was undertaking, which they said had stalled.

In an interview with the Nation at their home in Olemutel Village in Mosiro, Narok County, the late Sisina’s wife and other close family members said they will not allow the late billionaire to be buried until his family assures them of compensation.

STOP BURIAL

“We want to meet the parents of Mr Cholmondeley, and since it’s hard to meet them we will stop the burial of their son and compel them to meet us,” said Mrs Sisina.

According to the family, a ritual performed at the gravesite of the late Sisina recently by Maasai elders might have occasioned Mr Cholmondeley’s death.

“The ritual was one of its kind with the elders imploring upon the maker to punish those behind my father’s death,” said Mr John Sisina.

The late Sisina’s son said the family will not relent in seeking justice even with the death of Mr Cholmondeley.

He said the family had endured a lot frustration in their pursuit for justice regarding their father’s death.

PETITIONED TOBIKO

In July, the family had petitioned the Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko to launch fresh investigations into the case after disowning an order made by the then Attorney ten years ago.

It demanded a fresh public inquest into the death.

Mr Torome, the family’s spokesman, said they had been angered for not getting justice more than 11-years since the KWS official was shot dead in the line of duty.

The then AG Amos Wako terminated the case against Mr Cholmondeley.

“We felt justice had not been served and money was used to influence and kill the case and so we said, fine, the elders know how to conduct rituals,” he said.

From the time of his death, the late Sisina’s widow says she has sold 200 sheep and 40 cows to finance the court cases and pay for legal fees to different lawyers and this has drained the family financially.

“I have two children who are yet to join university after they passed their Form Four exams in 2014,” she said.