On Monday, Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor began the daunting task of performing postmortem examinations on some of the mutilated bodies recovered from the Kware dumpsite in Nairobi.
Addressing the press, Dr. Oduor revealed disturbing details about the state of one of the bodies, which had been gruesomely dismembered.
“One of the bodies recovered from the dumpsite had been dismembered into two almost equal parts,” Dr. Oduor disclosed.
He elaborated that the victim’s body was mutilated in the lumbar area, located in the lower abdomen, with a sharp object.
The pathologist further suggested that the victim might have died due to excessive bleeding from a head injury inflicted by a blunt object.
Dr. Oduor noted that the process of examining the remaining bodies would commence on Wednesday, July 17, starting with x-ray examinations.
“This exercise will continue until we finish since there are some body parts which are not here. We need to be able to determine how many people were involved and what their cause of death was,” he explained.
In dismissing any similarities between the recent deaths and the murder of Rita Waeni over six months ago, Dr. Oduor provided specific details to differentiate the cases.
“For Waeni, the legs were separate, each body part was separate,” he clarified, indicating that the mutilation in Waeni’s case was more extensive, involving multiple body parts including the legs and trunk.
The revelation of these preliminary findings came just a day after the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Chief, Mohamed Amin, announced the arrest of a prime suspect connected to the deaths of over nine women.
These women’s bodies were found at an abandoned quarry-turned-dumpsite in Mukuru, Nairobi.
DCI Chief Amin provided details on the arrest, which took place at dawn on Monday.
The suspect was apprehended outside a club in the Kayole area of Nairobi while he was watching the Euro 2024 final match.
“As we were apprehending him this morning, he was in the process of luring another victim. As investigations progress, we shall be able to get hold of the victim,” Amin stated.
He also indicated that more arrests were likely, as the suspect was believed to have accomplices.
“We are likely to arrest more suspects because we believe that he was not alone in the commission of this reprehensible act, and very soon we shall be able to arrest them. We shall cast the net wider,” he added.
As the investigation unfolds, the nation watches closely, hoping for justice for the victims and their families.
The thorough and meticulous work of Dr. Oduor and his team is critical in piecing together the evidence needed to bring the perpetrators to account.
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