Longonot is a new dumping ground for suspected cases of extrajudicial killings and bizarre murders.
Vehicles are driven into the vast open fields in the wee hours of the morning or in the dark of the night and bodies dumped there.
Yesterday, residents of Longonot trading centre on the Naivasha-Mai Mahiu road found a body of man.
The body brings to eight the number of victims dumped on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway in two months.
In the suspected case of extrajudicial killing, the body did not have any identification documents.
There were indications he was strangled with a wire.
Herder James ole Samili said the body was dropped from a personal vehicle late at night.
Luggage dropped
Samili said curious herders, who saw the car drop off ‘luggage’ rushed to the scene and found the body.
They informed police.
“A month ago, the bodies of a man and a woman were dumped near the same scene by an unmarked car.
“It looks like this has turned out to be the new dumping site,” he said.
A senior police officer, who declined to be named, said fingerprints will be sent to the Registrar of Persons for identification
baby abandoned
Meanwhile, residents of Kinungi in Naivasha rescued a newborn baby, who had been dumped in a garbage site.
Cries of the baby attracted residents of the centre located on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
Resident James Kabono said a woman heard the cries and informed her neighbours.
He said the baby was wrapped in a piece of cloth and carefully laid in the garbage site.
“We have taken the baby to Naivasha Subcounty Hospital, where she has been admitted,” Kabono said.
He said police are looking for the person responsible.