More human body parts were on Saturday discovered dumped in Nairobi as the number of cases of femicide continue to rise. The lower body parts suspected to belong to a woman, dismembered and stashed in a sack, were found dumped along Mathare River near Riverside/Mathare bridge. Residents of the area told The Sunday Standard that the body parts were discovered by a street child on while combing through river debris for valuables. "I rushed to the scene and raised alarm at around 7.30 am.
Two police officers arrived a few minutes later and assessed the sack and identified the body parts to be that of a human being and left," said Monica Kalondu, the area community health volunteer. She said other police officers would appear later accompanied by Directorate of Criminal Investigations officers after they reached out to them through Young Women and Girls Association. Kalondu said the angry residents declined to allow the police leave with the body parts before they identified other contents in the sack. "We saw a black spot that looked like a birth-mark on the thigh.
The body parts were badly dismembered," she said. Efforts by The Sunday Standard to reach the police for comment proved futile. The body parts were moved to Nairobi Funeral Home for postmortem. Detectives have revealed that body parts of a woman who was allegedly murdered by her husband in Nairobi's Huruma estate may belong to Joy Fridah Munani.
The 29-year-old John Kiama Wambua was accused of killing his wife and arrested early Tuesday morning carrying a suspicious bag in which police found parts of a human being. He has since been detained for 21 days after court granted the investigation agencies more time to conclude their investigations before he is allowed to take plea.
