New details of a man accused of
abducting and drowning two children in Arusha who was later killed by the
police last week, continue to unfold with his family rejecting to bury his
body. In
what appears to be an interesting twist, the parents of 18-year-old Samson
Petro say they will neither mourn their son nor prepare his burial because of
the senseless and intolerable acts he was doing before he died. The dead man’s
family resides at Stamico village in Ludete Ward of Katoro district in Geita
region. Police officers killed him on Wednesday morning last week during a
failed attempt to escape custody, says Arusha Regional Police Commander Charles
Mkumbo. He was the prime suspect in the brutal murder of Moureen Daudi, six,
and Ikram Salim, aged three, whose bodies were found dumped in a pit on Tuesday
in Olasiti ward. The parents of the two kids said the kidnappers had demanded
ransoms amounting to millions of shillings for their release. In an interview
with the ‘Daily News’, Mr Petro Aroon, the father of the deceased said the
punishment he faced from the law enforcers was enough for him and that he
deserved it. In that regard, he says he doesn’t deserve any burial ceremony
from his family; instead, he should be laid to rest at graveyards run by local
government authorities. Flanked by his wife Neema Mussa, Mr Aroon who is a
businessman and a father of seven, said the family had received news of his
death without ‘any shock’ because all of them knew that, in any case, he would
die that way due to his reckless lifestyle within the community. Narrating the
story of his son, Mr Aroon said the dead man was “a very stubborn young man”
and so a “notorious” thief within both the family and the surrounding community
that he was consequently expelled from the village.
“We cannot complain on what
befell him … and we can equally not blame anyone because we knew his
behaviour…we do not expect to travel to Arusha to collect his body, let the
authorities bury him there,’’ he insisted. He added that his son ran away from
his family in June this year and travelled to Arusha where he was received by
his cousin who is a police officer. While in Arusha, he added, Samson joined
groups of hooligans who were abducting people but his cousin had no idea about
what was going on behind him, because he saw him as an innocent young man, not
the notorious person he was in real life. “He opted to hide himself in Arusha
after stealing a television set of one of the teachers here known as Kato who
however forgave him … after police arrested him and later forced him to show
them where he had sold it,’’ his father narrated. At some point, he said, the
villagers had threatened to set his house on fire if he did not expel his son
who had then become “a menace” within the village for his propensity to steal
from neighbours. Mr Aroon added that he could not even complete his secondary
school because when he was enrolled in school he started stealing from his
teachers and fellow students, and that when parents convened at the school
meeting they proposed that he be expelled from school -- because he had started
creating ‘criminal gangs’ at schools that were likely to ruin the future of
their own children. The deceased’s mother, Neema Mussa, said the death of her
son should serve as a lesson to all parents on how best they could raise their
children. On her part, the death of the errant son did not come as a surprise
although she admitted she would miss him.
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