Family Pursues Justice After MKU Student Found Murdered In Thika
A Machakos family is requesting justice for their daughter, who was allegedly killed in cold blood by unidentified assailants.
Mount Kenya University (MKU) student Faith Musembi, 19, is thought to have died on Wednesday night.
Her father found her dead body in her leased room at Pilot Estate in the Thika Hospital Ward.
On Friday, her frantic father, Boniface Musembi, told reporters they received a call on Wednesday from an unidentified person requesting Ksh—20,000 as ransom for their daughter’s release. The deceased’s phone was being used by the caller.
According to Musembi, his wife quickly paid the money to save their daughter’s life, and he departed for Thika to investigate more.
He went to the Thika Police Station to report the matter, but he claimed that the police played it down and wrote it off as a ruse by the dead, her friends, or her boyfriend.
Musembi went to MKU to ask for assistance in locating the daughter because he was dissatisfied with the police station’s response and services. He spent the night at the university because it was already past midnight.
When Musembi arrived at his daughter’s home on Thursday morning, he discovered it was padlocked. He called her name multiple times, but no one answered.
When he asked a vegetable vendor outside the house where she had been, she said that she had sold the dead veggies the day before.
Musembi added that he made the decision to return to the Thika DCI office and report the issue, but that the officers he spoke with again minimized the experience, calling it nothing more than a ruse used by kids to embezzle money from their parents or other family members.
Musembi went back to his daughter’s house and broke in, determined to find out where she was. He was shocked to discover her lifeless body inside.
Musembi now holds police officials accountable for their negligence, claiming that they could have prevented his daughter’s killers if they had moved quickly. He pointed out that her phone, which her alleged killers were using, was still on.
The deceased’s uncle, Joseph Kinaka, claimed that when he texted her number on WhatsApp on Thursday morning, he got a message requesting Ksh. 33,000 as ransom, failing which she would be executed.
Kithaka reported that they sent him Faith’s picture after interacting with the person who had the phone. But as he looked closer at the picture, he noticed that she had bit her tongue and that blood was streaming from her nostrils.
He claimed to have approached the person who subsequently acknowledged killing the girl. When the phone was tracked, Nairobi town was the location from where it was functioning.
The girl’s body is lying in the Thika General Kago Funeral Home; an autopsy there revealed that she died from an internal haemorrhage.
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Family Pursues Justice After MKU Student Found Murdered In Thika
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