Families of five found in forest now agree to post-mortem analysis
Relatives of Yusuf Mwangi Mohamed, 19, one of the victims found killed and dumped at Tagwa forest in Nyeri, weep after receiving news of his death at their home in Ruring'u village. The families of the five victims have now agreed to have a post-mortem examination done on the bodies. PHOTO/BONIFACE MWANGI.
What you need to know:
- Pathologists at Nyeri PGH led by Dr Johansen Oduor convinced the families to allow for the post-mortem examination in order to assist in the investigation process.
- The families have appealed for thorough investigations to be conducted to determine the real cause behind the deaths.
- Police said none of the victims were arrested as their names were not in the Occurrence Book (OB).
- Their bodies were found in Tagwa forest, Kieni East District by a herdsman.
Families of five victims killed and dumped in a Nyeri forest on Thursday have agreed to have post-mortem examination conducted on the bodies of their kin.
This is after pathologists at Nyeri Provincial General Hospital led by Dr Johansen Oduor convinced them to allow for the post-mortem examination to be conducted in order to assist in the investigation process.
A lawyer with the Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) Nathan Karugu told the media that the pathologist convinced the families to agree to a comprehensive post-mortem report.
“We sent Dr Oduor to conduct the post-mortem on behalf of IMLU, and despite initial resistance, he has managed to convince them to allow for the comprehensive analysis,” said Mr Karugu.
Earlier, the families had objected to the post-mortem with those belonging to the Muslim faith saying that Islam does not allow for surgical tampering of a body.
The other non-Muslim families had said it would be expensive to conduct the post-mortem examination.
However, Mariam Wanjiku Mohammed, the mother to one of the victims identified as Yusuf Mwangi Mohammed, said they will collect the bodies immediately after the post-mortem for burial.
The families have appealed for thorough investigations to be conducted to determine the real cause of the deaths.
They claimed that police officers had picked up the four men together with a woman on Wednesday night after watching a Barcelona and Real Madrid football match at a local pub at Ruring’u shopping centre.
But the security officers continue to deny the allegations stating that all those arrested on that day were booked at various police stations.
Police said none of the victims were arrested as their names were not in the Occurrence Book (OB).
Those killed were identified as Yusuf Mwangi Mohammed and Mohammed Kaburu both 19, Kevin Kihuru Wangui, 25, a Mr King’ori alias Kings and Martha Wairimu alias Joan.
Their bodies were found in Tagwa forest, Kieni East District by a herdsman.
Nyeri County Police Commander Agnes Lihabi challenged anybody with information of police involvement in the deaths to forward it to them and record a statement.
The four men are from Ruring’u area near Nyeri town. The woman who is a single mother of two boys aged six and two years is from Kwa Huku village in Kieni East District.
According to Wairimu’s father Duncan Nderitu, his last born child was well behaved and never had trouble with security officers in her life.
“She used to look for casual cleaning jobs in Nyeri town and her children lived with my wife at our village in Kwa Huku in Kieni,” he said.
