Stephen Munyakho, a Kenyan man recently freed from death row in Saudi Arabia, has broken his silence on the 2011 incident that led to his imprisonment, describing the fatal fight with his Yemeni colleague as unintentional and deeply traumatising.
Speaking to Citizen TV a day after arriving in Nairobi, Munyakho explained that the confrontation, which took place on April 9, 2011, began as a salary-related disagreement that quickly spiralled out of control. "It was a salary-related fight.
I was supposed to go and collect my salary, but he was not willing to let me go," he explained. "I ended up getting angry, he used words that were not very good and I could not take them.
He is the one who started the fight." During the altercation, Munyakho said the man pulled out a knife and attacked him first. "I have a stab wound on my hand and on my thigh.
