The police in Nyamira County have started an investigation that may lead to the arrest of close neighbours who allegedly killed a Chuka University student.
According to the area Assistant Chief of Nyokwoyo village, Ikonge Sub-Location, located in Nyamira North Sub-county, Joseph Masese, the 22-year-old student, came home. His mother, Teresah Mogaka, suspected that he was under the influence of drugs and then invited her brothers to come to their home to guide and counsel the perceived errand youth.
It was at that point when the maternal uncles came to the home and held their nephew, tied his hands and legs, and started beating him for discipline.
They reportedly flogged him until he collapsed, then laid him in bed, expecting him to recover from his consciousness.
After discovering that he was dead, they reportedly removed his dirty clothes from the body. They dressed it with clean ones to cover up evidence away from their neighbours.
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His siblings sensed their mother and uncles’ sinister behaviour and reported it to the area chief, Joseph Masebe.
Speaking to Education News this morning, the chief said that he found the body of the deceased lying on the bed with a deep cut on the leg and other bruises all over the body and denied any case of poisoning.
“We found a bottle of cattle spray laid beside the body to imply that the deceased killed himself because of anger from being beaten by the uncles, but I think the poison was imposed on him to conceal the evidence of killing him,” he said.
Nyamira DCI and regular police took the body to Nyamira Teaching and Referral Hospital for preservation and further investigation.
The preliminary police investigation report indicates that the deceased was murdered and the body was laid on the bed neatly to feign death from sickness.
“We took the body to the hospital mortuary as we picked a few people from the village to help us with investigations,” said one police officer.
Nyamira County Commissioner Erastus Mbui decried the high rates of crime in the region and attributed them to general defiance of the law by the public but warned of the consequences for the lawbreakers.
The mysterious death comes barely after a widow was attacked and wounded by her brothers-in-law for defying burial cultural rites.
The victim, who was identified as Mellen Mogaka, was allegedly separated from her husband three years ago. She returned to attend her former husband’s funeral when misfortune befell her as the villagers forced her to throw soil into her husband’s grave against her will.
They allegedly landed on her with kicks and blows and left her for dead.
Nyamira police have confirmed the arrest of the suspected attackers at Kiambere village in the Mwongorisi sub-location. The suspects will face the law in court.
By Enock Okong’o
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