Two Kiambu families on Tuesday identified the bodies of two men who were kidnapped in Nairobi, killed and their bodies dumped in Baringo.
The victims, Charles Muchuha, 28, and Daniel Kinuthia, 34, went missing from Nairobi’s Kiamaiko and Huruma estates on January 18 and 19 respectively.
The families said since the two disappeared they have been to several police stations and mortuaries searching for them.
“We finally received a call from Kabarnet DCI telling us to come and identify two bodies that were dumped here,” Muchuha's nephew Peter Ng’anga said on Tuesday.
The two bodies were found in Kiboino bush along the Kabarnet-Iten-Eldoret road around 6pm on January 23.
Residents informed police officers who moved the bodies to the county referral hospital mortuary in Kabarnet.
Muchuha's hand and leg were missing and his eyes gorged out, while Kinuthia's head had been crushed.
Ng’anga said Muchuha used to receive strange calls and when he picked, the caller would not speak.
He said Muchuha was an Uber driver and on January 18, three people who identified themselves as police officers took him away from a car wash in Kiamaiko.
“He was driven off in a car and that was the last time his friends and colleagues saw him,” Ng'ang'a said.
Kinuthia, according to his cousin Samwel Ndung'u, worked as a mason in Huruma, Nairobi. He also resided in the estate. Kinuthia went missing on January 19.
Ndung’u said Kinuthia was home for lunch when strange people came and ordered him out.
“A neighbour reported to us that he heard people commanding Kinuthia out of his house and it wasn’t clear who they were,” he said.
A white Probox was seen parked near their gate and neighbours suspected it might have been the one the killers used to ferry him.
Ndung'u said Kinuthia has left behind a widow and four children.
He urged the government to fast-track investigations into the murders.
Wangari Wambugo, a government pathologist based in Baringo, said the bodies had similar injuries. She said the deaths may have been caused by strangulation.
Baringo-based civil society crusader Isaiah Biwott said the murders might have been committed by people settling scores with the victims.
“People should learn to respect the law, report suspects to be taken to court and charged instead of killing each other,” he said.
Worried residents of Baringo asked why the killings were taking place during the electioneering season.
Edited by A.N
