The body of a man who was found murdered and abandoned in a cabin of a lorry in Rongo Town, Migori County, was identified as that of the driver, Dickson Indimuli Aluwa, 69.
An autopsy conducted on the body
showed he had been hit in the head with a blunt object that caused the death.
He was a driver of the lorry belonging to Mombasa
Maize Millers in Kisumu.
According to the police and the management, he had been
sent to deliver assorted edible oils to Kehancha on August 8 when he went
missing.
The company said they lost track of the lorry then.
It is believed he was trapped and killed by unknown
people who stole the jerricans containing the oil.
The body had also been doused
with an acid before being abandoned at the scene on August 8. It was decomposed when it was found.
It wasn’t until August 10 at
about 3 pm at the Rongo Taxi Yard that guards working there said they were
disturbed by a foul smell from the lorry.
They were also attracted there
by flies that had been pulled to the Mercedes-Benz lorry by the rotting body.
It was then that they raised an
alarm.
Police were called to the scene and broke into
the lorry where they discovered the body lying in the cabin behind the driver’s
seat.
The body had
burn scars on the face, stomach and left leg, suspected to be from acid
dousing.
Witnesses said
they saw the vehicle being parked at the scene hurriedly on Friday, August 8, night by two men who later disembarked and left.
The body was released
to the family for burial in their Vihiga home, police said, as the hunt for the
killers goes on.
Police believe the killers were targeting the edible oil, and the man had resisted their moves.
