Media boss charged with threats to kill

Farida Idris Mohamed, Commercial Director of Capital FM Group, has been accused of threatening to kill her ex-lover. Idriss, who is also her business partner, appeared before Chief Justice Lucas Onina Wednesday and refuted seven criminal charges of threatening to assassinate Hussein Ayla Amaro.

The prosecution alleges that on 14 June 2019, Idris threatened to kill her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, Swarna, in a series of text conversations.

On the first count, it was charged that on June 14, 2019, via her mobile phone, she sent her ex-lover a message saying, “Now tell me what you are going to do to me… Total,”

Driss was also charged with threatening to kill Amaro and dragging his body on a hot runway on the same date she allegedly committed the other crimes.

On 14 June 2019 at 10:14 in an unknown location within the Republic of Kenya without legal excuses Idris directly caused Hussain to receive a short message (SMS) to his Safaricom line saying: “I will kill you with my own hands and drag your body on the hot tarmac so that no one can of recognizing your rotten body and then burying you before you proceed to hell.”

After denying the charges, Idris, through attorney Peter Wanyama, urged the court to grant her lenient bail terms, saying she would abide by all conditions set by the court.

Prosecutor Anderson Gicunda did not object, but urged the court to order the accused to stop sending further letters to the complainant. Onyina ordered Idris released on Sh300,000 bail or Sh100,000 cash bail