The Nairobi Hospital has organized a requiem mass for the slain institution’s finance director Eric Maigo.
The mass will be held on Friday, September 22, 2023, at the hospital Amphitheatre Convention Centre 2nd Floor from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm.
Chief Executive Officer James Nyamongo said in an internal memo a link will be circulated in due course for those who will not be able to attend physically to follow the service virtually.
“All HODs are requested to organize the shifts accordingly to allow staff to attend the mass without any disruption of services to our clients,” said the memo dated September 20.
Maigo will be buried at his Kisii rural home on September 29, a family member said
This comes as police said they are pursuing good leads in connection with the killer of Maigo.
Maigo’s body was found with the 25 stabs minutes after he had been killed at about 6 am, police said.
His assailant, a female who had spent the night at the house and escaped minutes before police arrived.
Neighbours said they heard the two arrive home on Thursday and played music until late.
It was until the following day that they heard Maigo groan for help.
Neighbors at the Woodley Annex apartment said they heard Maigo groaning in pain.
They decided to go to his door and knocked only to be confronted by a woman who informed them all was well and she was looking for the keys to open.
The woman peeped through the window claiming she could not locate the key.
The neighbours could hear Maigo still groaning in pain and seeking help.
The lady who was in the house refused to open prompting the neighbours to alert the security at the compound.
They asked the security not to allow anyone from the house to leave as they went to report the matter.
By the time police arrived at the scene, they found the woman suspected to have acted alone missing.
The rear door was open and Maigo’s body was lying on the floor.
The killer behind the murder used two knives in the attack.
The knives were recovered in the house and results from the fingerprints show they were handled by one person who is the suspected killer, police said.
It is believed the killer used one knife in the attack and after it became bloody she went for a second one.
The knives are being kept as exhibits as the hunt for the main suspect behind the murder goes on.
Police are holding a woman in the probe.
The woman was produced in court under miscellaneous application on Monday afternoon and police allowed to hold her for five days as part of the probe into the murder.
The woman in custody is among people who were last seen with Maigo last Thursday before his body was found in the house in Woodley, Nairobi.
Maigo had been to a popular club along Ngong Road where he met several people including three women.
The hunt on the main culprit, a woman in her early thirties is ongoing, police handling the matter said.
Maigo's body had 25 stab wounds that caused his death, an autopsy showed.
The postmortem which was conducted at the Lee Funeral Home on Saturday revealed some vital organs were raptured by the stabs in the attack.
“He had 25 stab wounds. This caused both external and internal bleeding,” said chief government pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor.
He said there were no defence injuries meaning the man lay as he was being stabbed.
Oduor said they suspect the attacker sat on the man’s belly as she stabbed him to inflict deadly injuries and immobilise him.
Officials took swabs and other samples from the body for further analysis and toxicology tests to establish if he was poisoned before the murder.
The attacker, a middle-aged woman did not steal anything from the deceased house, police said.
Police said they are yet to establish the motive of the murder.
An analysis of the security surveillance cameras showed the woman scale a wall behind the compound and escape.
