Gov’t Pathologist Provides Postmortem Findings On Kware Dumpsite Bodies
According to Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor, none of the bodies recovered from the Kware dumpsite in Embakasi South had gunshot wounds.
Dr. Oduor, in collaboration with a team from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), completed the postmortem examination of nine female bodies at the City Mortuary on Wednesday.
He stated that their findings revealed that some bodies were missing lower limbs and others had cuts in the lumbar area (lower back), the majority of which were dismembered.
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“The contents of some of them were lower limbs which were amputated from the knees downwards and they were two right legs and two left legs,” he said.
“They were from the waist to the knee which were three of them and then there was another trunk from the waist upwards which we assigned cause of death as strangulation.”
He also stated that some bodies had deep head injuries and that the individuals were believed to have died from severe bleeding.
“There was also a whole body of a female who we examined and we found that she had head injuries.”
Dr. Oduor stated that the majority of the work entails correctly identifying the dismembered parts, assembling them, and determining the cause of death.
“We are taking samples of DNA for the purpose of reconciling with each piece so that we can know how many bodies we have,” he noted.
“Bodies which are severely decomposed become very difficult to assign the cause of death because there is what we call postmortem artifacts where so many tissues get lost because of decomposition.”
However, nobody had any gunshot wounds, raising concerns that some of the bodies may have belonged to victims killed during the anti-government protests that began a month ago.
According to the DCI, 13 severely dismembered female body parts in various stages of decomposition were recovered from the Kware dump site between July 11 and July 15, 2024.
The body parts were discovered at the Nairobi Funeral Home, formerly City Mortuary, and at least two of them have since been identified by their families.
Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, the prime suspect in the killings, was apprehended on July 15 after the DCI stated that a phone trail led to his arrest.
The DCI claimed that Khalusha confessed to killing 42 women since 2022, but a shocking turn of events occurred when he told the court that he was tortured into confession.
Two more suspects, Amos Momanyi and Moses Ogembo, were later arrested.
Momanyi was found with a mobile phone and two Safaricom SIM cards belonging to one of the victims, Roselyn Akoth Ogongo.
Ogembo is said to have sold the cellular device to Momanyi.
The court on Wednesday granted the DCI’s request to detain the two for 28 days to allow them to conclude their investigations.
Gov’t Pathologist Provides Postmortem Findings On Kware Dumpsite Bodies
