Doctor who treated PS Julius Korir’s wife after alleged beating testifies in court

A case in which Cabinet Affairs Principal Secretary Julius Korir has been charged with assaulting his estranged wife continued on Tuesday with a doctor taking to the stands to testify in the matter.

Dr. Stephanie Wakaba told the court that one time while carrying out her duties at the Nairobi Hospital, she received a patient by the name Evelyn Koech.

The court was told that Koech appeared to be sick because she had bruises and linear marks on her back and butt, as well as a tear on the arm.

"She came in with a history of physical assault...I attended to her," Dr. Wakaba informed the court.

A video to support the remarks was also played during the court session.

The PS is charged that on September 17, 2020, at Ndalat Road in Karen, Nairobi, he assaulted Koech and caused her bodily harm.

He is presently out on a cash bail, with two additional witnesses yet to testify in the matter; the hearing will continue on May 30 this year.

Koech previously narrated to the court how Mr. Korir returned home one day and asked for food but, before she could respond, he had already started beating her.

"On the fateful day, I was putting our child to bed when my husband walked into the children’s bedroom and shouted ‘Leo utaniona, iko wapi chakula?’ And before I answered the accused started slapping me. I was trying to protect the baby from the slaps," she stated in November 2022.

She also said that that was not the first time she received beatings from the accused, adding that the physical violence started in 2015 and continued all through the years

"There's a time when I was three days to delivery…he beat me in front of his workers and other children," she said.