11/06/2026
They shared one girlfriend. He drew his service pistol and opened fire, ensuring the newly elected ODM MP who had just won a seat in the volatile Rift Valley would never take his place in Parliament.
It happened in Eldoret on Thursday, January 31, 2008. Kenya was tearing itself apart after the disputed December elections—matatus swerving wildly, groups of young men shouting slogans (today, they might be chanting "Wantam" or "Tutam"), and the distant crackle of tension everywhere. In West Indies Estate, a quiet residential neighborhood, a personal grudge was about to explode amid the national chaos.
David Kimutai Too, 39, had only been the ODM MP for Ainamoi Constituency in Kericho for about 30 days. The former principal of Boywek Secondary School — a quiet Kalenjin man known among colleagues like Charles Keter as humble and soft-spoken — had won big on the Orange wave, beating 12 others. He still carried himself like the teacher he once was, steady and thoughtful, even as ethnic tensions boiled all around.
That day, he was with Eunice Chepkwony, a traffic policewoman in uniform, his girlfriend. Their relationship had been going on quietly, complicated by marriages on both sides. They had parked in the estate. Too was probably relaxing in the driver's seat, maybe sharing a few words with her outside the car. For a moment, away from the riots and politics, it might have felt normal.
He never made it to another parliamentary session.
Andrew Moache Omwenga had been trailing them on his government GK motorbike. The broad-shouldered traffic cop was sweating under his uniform, his heart pounding in a fight-or-flight response. He and Eunice went way back to Kenya Police College Kiganjo around 2000. They had reconnected strongly in Eldoret in 2006. In his mind, she was his. Seeing her with this new MP felt like a knife in the gut, especially with rumors flying about HIV and everything else.
He killed the engine nearby, eyes locked on them. Jealousy, the heat, and the madness of the post-election streets had him wired tight.
“Eunice!” Moache shouted, striding up fast, his voice rough and loud. He was already reaching for his service pistol.
Too stepped out and turned sharply. “Who are you? What do you want here?”
Eunice looked shocked. “Andrew, stop! Not like this!”
But Moache was past listening. “You think you’re a big MP now and you can take my woman? Spoiling her name, spreading lies about AIDS?” His voice cracked with raw anger.
Shouts turned to shoving. Accusations flew — messy, personal, heated. Then metal cleared leather.
Eunice screamed as the first bullet hit her thigh, buckling her legs. The second slammed into her chest. She went down hard against the vehicle, blood soaking her uniform and the dusty ground.
Too moved and pulled his own gun. Moache didn’t pause. He fired again.
Shots tore into Too’s shoulders and chest. The last one, straight to the forehead, dropped the MP instantly onto the red soil. His eyes stared up at the hazy Rift Valley sky, blood spreading fast beneath him. Eunice clung to life a bit longer but died later at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital.
The whole thing was over in under a minute — sudden, ugly, and final in the middle of a town already on edge.
Moache stood there for a second, breathing heavily, his pistol hot in his hand. The reality hit. He jumped back on the motorbike and sped off to the District Officer’s camp at Turbo, where he handed himself in, still smelling of gunfire.
Riots flared up again in Eldoret, Kericho, and Kisumu. In Ainamoi, angry supporters grabbed another policeman and lynched him in revenge.
The police, including Deputy Chief Gabriel Kuya in Eldoret, called it a straight-up crime of passion — a love triangle gone bloody over Eunice. Moache said he acted in self-defense after discovering the affair, claiming guns came out on both sides.
ODM bigwigs, including the late Raila Odinga, wouldn’t hear it. They labeled it the second killing of an ODM MP that week, after Melitus Mugabe Were in Nairobi. With ODM’s slim majority at stake and over 1,000 dead in the post-election violence, it smelled like a targeted hit to some.
By 2009, in Nakuru High Court, Justice David Maraga (who later became Chief Justice) reduced the double murder charges to manslaughter. He cited provocation and self-defense elements. Moache got 10 years. The court found no proof of prior planning or political orders — only a heated confrontation that turned fatal.
The families of Too and Eunice were furious at the outcome. Many ODM supporters still insist the full truth never came out.
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