It now emerges that George Bengo, farm manager of former Judge Effie Owuor might have been in his assailants' hit list for quite some time.
According to fresh revelations, Bengo was cunningly dragged from his home in Migosi Estate, Kisumu Town to Muhoroni before his murder on Saturday.
It reportedly began in form of a land tussle between the suspected killer and Judge Effie Owuor a month ago, shortly before the suspect invaded the farm with two tractors.
The suspect on Sunday called him (Bengo) for deliberations following his move to report the invasion to the police in Chemelil last week.
But according to the deceased's wife Mary Anyango, the meeting was a deathtrap.
“When the man started ploughing the farm about a month ago, my husband called the authorities and reported the matter, but both the police and the national administrators insisted that he physically go to Chemelil and officially report the case,” she said as quoted by Standard.
Reports on the Standard indicate that when the farm manager approached the suspect for the meeting, he (the suspect) signaled a group of people hidden in a nearby sugarcane farm who landed on Bengo with machetes, slitting his throat and killing him on the spot.
The Judge's son Paul Owuor who had accompanied Bengo was also attacked and is fighting for his life at the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu after sustaining serious machete injuries.
At the time of the attack, the trespasser had ploughed about 30 acres of the said land located in Nyang'ore Village in Muhoroni Sub-County along the Kisumu-Nandi border.
All police commanders in the vast Nyanza region have since been directed to tirelessly solve the issue and bring the assailants to book.