Government Pathologist Describes the Murder of 4 Shakahola Victims

Four of the 30 Shakahola victims whose remains underwent post mortem on Tuesday, May 2, according to government doctor Johasen Oduor, were murdered.

Speaking to the media after the autopsy, Oduor disclosed that one of the victims, a child, was strangled to death while the deaths of two other victims were caused by suffocation.

“For one of them, we could definitely see marks on the neck that looked like someone had been strangled and there had been some neck bone cracking. This person, who was a child, was definitely strangled, according to us.

“Two had been suffocated. The pathologist said that this is when someone covers your mouth and nose, preventing you from breathing and causing you to pass away.

He mentioned that a blunt head injury caused the fourth child to pass away. At the same time, Oduour emphasized that 20 additional victims had perished from malnutrition.

The government pathologist went on to say that it is not necessary to have representatives from human rights organizations present during the postmortem procedure. They might not have any involvement within there because autopsies are more like forensic investigations. I don’t think their function is really needed there, other than to be traumatized,” he said.

On Monday, Interior CS Kithure Kindiki said that the pathologists would also look into whether the victims’ bodies had any missing organs.

“We will alert the public if any of the Shakahola victims have missing organs. Truthfully, there is nothing we are trying to conceal. We just need to figure out why the organs went missing, who took them, and where. At Shakahola, the accountability process is drawn out and drawn out,” said Kindiki.