Masten Wanjala’s father has defended his son’s behavior while claiming that it was not his wish to end up like that but his mother’s.
Robert Wanjala Watira who saddened by the news of his son’s death blamed his ex-wife for Masten’s poor upbringing that turned him into a child serial killer.
“I was sad, you know he was my son, and it was not his wish, it was his mother’s wish,” a disappointed Watira said.
Watira was speaking at his home in Bungoma a few a hours after news of Masten’s lynching broke out.
The old man further said that his son had requested for forgiveness at the time when detectives were tracing his crime scenes in Bungoma while telling that him that it was his mother who was responsible for his vampire like traits.
“He told me, father, am requesting for your forgiveness, I have spoiled your name, just forgive me and I told him I don’t have an issue with you,” Watira said.
“He told me it was my mother who introduced me to those things, even if I will die in her name,” Watira added.
He further insisted that he only met Masten when he was 18 years. His mother Edna Nabalayo brought Masten to him in 2017.
“She told me here is your son,” Watira recounted.
From the look of things, the boy did not seem to have stepped in a class according to his father. He did neither had book, uniform nor a letter of transfer.
The then 18-year old was donning a hairstyle that most probably no school would agree to according to his father.
“He had lines across his head, it was in 2017, I asked his mother which school is this that agrees a child to be in school like this,” Watira narrated.
Watira then organized his son by taking him to a barber shop to cut his hair before enrolling him in a nearby school.
The father is now requesting the government to help him burry his son Masten since he is not in position to do so because of his financial status.
“I am just requesting the government to help me with the burial plans because I don’t have the means to, after everything is done, I request that they bring me my son so that I can bury him myself,” Watira stated.
Masten’s mother who is married in Machakos county is yet to comment on the issue.
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