PS Sing'Oei meets Stevo's mother as Gov't seeks all measures to save Kenyan facing execution in Saudi Arabia

PS Sing'Oei in a statement on X, said he met Dorothy Kweyu--mother to Stephen Bertrand Munyakho (Stevo) who is stuck in a Saudi prison. 

"While acknowledging the monumental challenge related to the case of her son, I assured Mama Dorothy and the family that the Government would take all necessary measures to help Stephen come back home," PS Sing'Oei wrote on X. 

The update comes just a day after Saudi Arabia agreed to Kenya’s request to postpone the impending execution of the Kenyan citizen. 

Munyakho, who has since been named Abdulkareem, has spent 13 years in different Saudi prisons and was due to be executed on Wednesday, May 15.

Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing’oei on Monday said Saudi authorities agreed to put off Munyakho’s execution pending further negotiations.

“I am deeply grateful to inform (sic) that authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have kindly granted our request to postpone the impending execution of Stephen Munyakho (now known as Abdulkareem), to allow for further negotiations between all parties,” the PS said on X.

Munyakho, 37, was working in Saudi Arabia and was sentenced to death by the sword after being involved in a fight with a colleague in April 2011. The colleague succumbed to injuries. 

His family in Kenya had been racing against time to raise some Ksh.150M as payment to the family of the Yemeni colleague who died after a fight.