MUKURU BODY AUTOPSIES POSTPONED TO WEDNESDAY OVER EXPECTED ANTI-GOVT PROTESTS
The post-mortem series on the bodies collected at the Kware dumpsite in Mukuru, which started on Monday, will break today and resume on Wednesday amidst anti-government protests expected in Nairobi.
Members of the public said they collected another body on Monday afternoon and escorted it to the city mortuary where the exercise is going on.
This exhumation exercise is necessary to establish the method of killing used before the victim’s dismemberment and putting in sacks and dumping in a garbage site where they were found.
The operation is likely to take long, owing to its delicate nature, since some body parts recovered ere in a decomposed state, hence needing to go through DNA analysis to establish their identity.
The police intend to take the chief suspect in the killings before the court under a miscellaneous application.
In the application, they will seek detention to enable them to complete the investigation before he is taken to court over the murders.
The 33-year-old suspect was arrested at a club in the Soweto slums in Kware, where police said he had gone to watch the Euro football finals early Monday morning.
The police said he confessed to the killing of 42 persons- mostly women whom he killed, dismembered their bodies for dumping at the site between 2022 and July 11, 2024.
The discovery of the bodies, all of them women, came at a time when the country’s tension had been heightened as it came at a time when claims of extra-judicial killings of anti-government protests are rife.
DCI Director Amin Mohamed has assured Kenyans detailed investigations into the killings are on course.
According to the police, the first casualty of the suspect was his wife.
She was allegedly killed, the body dismembered after mismanaging a business venture he had set up for her on several occasions, which resulted in his anger and deadly attack.
A second suspect arrested with a mobile phone belonging to one of Jumaisi’s victims is being processed by detectives, after which he shall be treated either as a suspect or as a witness in the case.
This is because, according to the DCI, he may have bought the phone innocently from the prime suspect, who would sell off his victims’ phones at throw-away prices after killing them.
