The corpse of a Kenyan human rights activist was found inside the City’s mortuary slab. Caroline Mwatha’s body was found after one week of her being declared missing.
Mwatha’s body was found after two key suspects provided clues of her whereabouts. A detective involved in the probe said that those arrested include a woman who owns a clinic and a doctor who practices there.
Police said investigations have shown that Mwatha died at the clinic where she had sought unspecified medical services before her body was taken to the mortuary.
Spokesman for the Police, Charles Owino, who confirmed the incident, said that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations is finalizing investigations before the two are charged over the death.
Mwatha’s family and colleagues over the week, were engaged in a frantic search for her at all the main hospitals and the City Mortuary, but it proved futile.
According to sources, the body was taken to the morgue and booked under a different name, but it is not yet clear when.
According to witnesses interviewed by the media, the mother of two was last seen on February 6 walking alone to her house.
Three days after she went missing, someone was said to have used her phone to call her husband in Dubai, but he did not answer.
Police will now focus on establishing how Mwatha met her death and who was involved.
Right groups had raised alarm due to the nature of her work, which is usually prone to threats and more so after the 2016 incident in which lawyer Willie Kimani, his client and driver went missing but were later found brutally murdered.