Detectives from Salama police station on Sunday morning commenced investigations to unravel motives behind a woman's move to give birth and bury her baby alive at a riverbed on February 7,2025.
The woman identified as Mwongeli Kisui is reported to have given birth at her sister's home at Kwa Nyunyi village, Ngaamba, Kilome sub-county, Makueni, on Friday around 9a.m before her mother coming for the neonatal and subsequently burying it mercilessly alive. "The woman is a single mother of two.
She had given birth to a third born child.
She had just come back home and was staying at her sister's home some few metres from her parents' home where the incident occurred," Kioko Wambua, a villager here told the standard on Sunday With an intention of killing the baby, Mwongeli's mother, Kanini Kisui reportedly picked the foetus few minutes later and carried it to a river bed of River Ikolya before digging a shallow grave burying it there. "When community mobilized themselves and pressured the family to reveal what happened they took us together with the area Assistant Chief to the site where we found the baby alive but breathing with difficulties.
