Mammito Rubbishes Uproar On Video Mocking Jowie After Death Sentencing
The skit came a few hours after High Court Judge Justice Grace Nzioka handed Jowie the death sentence, indicating that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Marvin Chege 
UPDATE: Popular comedian Eunice Mammito has responded to the unexpected uproar regarding her comical skit of Jowie Irungu, suggesting that if people can come together over her video, perhaps they can also unite to tackle more significant issues like corruption
"I have witnessed a very rare occurrence something that has not happened since 2002 people from every background uniting together for a reason, to cook me. It gives me hope for the future that one day we shall unite and fight against corruption and other things ailing our country.
"Am in hot fire now, my soul weeps. I am but a small thin woman with no buttocks and am not as attractive, how dare I joke about a beautiful accused person, but your unity how it fills my soul!" she wrote in an Instagram post.
Popular comedienne and content creator, Eunice Wanjiru Njoki, alias Mammito, went viral on Wednesday, March 13 for the wrong reasons following her comical skit aimed at Joseph Irungu, alias Jowie, who was earlier sentenced to death for the murder of businesswoman Monica Kimani.
The skit came a few hours after High Court Judge Justice Grace Nzioka handed Jowie the death sentence, indicating that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Mammito's clip featured her signing an acapella of American singer-songwriter, actress, and philanthropist Dolly Parton's hit song Jolene, but with lyrics twisted to a song offering advice to Jowie, despite their seemingly insensitive nature and an ignorance of Jowie's current situation.
“Jowie, Jowie, Jowieeee, don’t you cry because you got a death sentence. Jowie, Jowie, Jowie, see it as an opportunity to scam us Jowie. Jowie, when you go to prison, you will find a man that loves you so dearly you will find your soulmate Jowie," she sang in the clip.
Here it is below:
When one door closes another opens pic.twitter.com/gqkLAcHfh5 — MammitoEunice (@eunicemammito) March 13, 2024
"With your two songs, you are going to perform in the prison in the prison talent show, and you are going to kill it, Jowie."
Despite Mammito's likely innocent intentions, many netizens have taken issue with her choice of words and a difference from her popularity in several hilarious skits.
Critics argued that Mammito failed to consider the pain and suffering Jowie's family is enduring, many of them asserting that her attempt at humour fell flat and came across as tasteless given the seriousness of the situation.
"Content creators need a course on emotional and social intelligence. Mammito's mockery of the Jowie death sentence is insensitive, distasteful and unnecessary. It doesn't honour Monica Kimani's memory either.
"The video stays defiantly up hours after widespread disapproval including from her own fans. It's giving doubling down which never ends well. Does she have friends? Is it worth the goodwill and partnerships she's risking? Not every content is worth the 'engagement'," journalist Ferdinand Omondi complained.
"Monica Kimani's family is in deep pain, Jowie Irungu's family is in deep pain. It is insensitive for Eunice Mammito to make senseless content out of this situation. Even Monica's family will not laugh at this. Mamito should issue an apology to the two families now," politician Alinur Mohamed commented.
The backlash spread as far as Instagram where her fellow celebrities disagreed with her latest attempt at humour in the clip.
The decision by Justice Nzioka to sentence Jowie to death nonetheless received intense criticism, with vocal lawyer Miguna Miguna terming the ruling as a violation of the Kenyan Constitution on the right to life.
"A human being, including a judge, shouldn’t have the power to order the killing of anyone. It also violates the Constitution, which banned the death penalty,” Miguna stated on X.
Justice Grace Nzioka ordered the death sentence against Jowie noting that it is in line with the offence of murder under section 204 of the penal code of Kenya.
However, in December 2017, the death penalty was undeclared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Kenya, meaning that the country has not executed any convict who has been sentenced to the death penalty since July 1987.
Instead, a convict who is sentenced under the death penalty is expected to serve a life imprisonment term with little chance of release as opposed to other convicts who are likely to have their sentences reduced.
Additionally, convicts serving a life sentence are not allowed to work in prison or engage in other activities such as educational activities that other prisoners engage in.
Death penalty convicts in prison are also isolated from other prisoners and housed in different quarters.
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