Kware Dumpsite Bodies Show No Bullet Wounds, Says Government Pathologist

Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor has confirmed that none of the bodies recovered from the Kware dumpsite in Embakasi South had gunshot wounds. The grim discovery of dismembered female bodies at the site has sent shockwaves through the community and raised urgent questions about the victims' fates.

Dr. Oduor, along with a team from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), concluded a meticulous postmortem examination on nine female bodies at the City Mortuary on Wednesday. Their findings were harrowing: several bodies had missing lower limbs, and others bore cuts at the lumbar area, indicating they had been dismembered.

"The contents of some of them were lower limbs which were amputated from the knees downwards and they were two right legs and two left legs," Dr. Oduor stated. "They were from the waist to the knee which were three of them, and then there was another trunk from the waist upwards which we assigned cause of death as strangulation."

The investigation revealed more chilling details. Some bodies exhibited deep head injuries, with severe bleeding believed to be the cause of death. "There was also a whole body of a female who we examined and we found that she had head injuries," Dr. Oduor added.

File photo of government pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor

Identifying the dismembered parts and determining the exact cause of death remain the primary challenges. Dr. Oduor emphasized, "We are taking samples of DNA for the purpose of reconciling with each piece so that we can know how many bodies we have. Bodies which are severely decomposed become very difficult to assign the cause of death because there is what we call postmortem artifacts where so many tissues get lost because of decomposition."

The absence of gunshot wounds has dispelled fears that these bodies might belong to victims of recent anti-government protests. The DCI reported that 13 female body parts, severely dismembered and in varying stages of decomposition, were recovered from the Kware dump site between July 11 and July 15, 2024. Two of these have since been identified by their families at the Nairobi Funeral Home, formerly City Mortuary.

The prime suspect, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, was apprehended on July 15 after the DCI tracked him via phone trails. Khalusha allegedly confessed to killing 42 women since 2022 but later retracted his confession, claiming he was tortured into admitting the crimes. Subsequently, two more suspects, Amos Momanyi and Moses Ogembo, were arrested. Momanyi was found in possession of a mobile phone and two Safaricom SIM cards belonging to one of the victims, Roselyn Akoth Ogongo. Ogembo reportedly sold the phone to Momanyi.

The court has granted the DCI a 28-day period to detain the suspects and conclude their investigations. As the community grapples with the shocking discoveries, the pressing task remains to uncover the full extent of these heinous acts and bring the perpetrators to justice.