The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has charged three men at the Garissa High Court with the alleged murder of a 17-year-old refugee girl in Wajir County.
Principal Prosecution Counsel Benard Owuor informed the court that the three are accused of murdering Gaala Adan on March 22, 2025, at Lolkuta South Sub-location, Wara Location, Hadado Sub-County, within Wajir County.
The suspects were charged after the DPP directed the investigating officers to exhume the deceased's body and conduct a proper postmortem examination by a government pathologist to establish the actual cause of death.
The deceased, born on January 1, 2008, had been married to the first accused, aged 40, in a ceremony held by Somali rites on February 22, 2025, at Dagahaley Refugee Camp, according to the ODPP. ODPP offices in Nairobi.
