A Nairobi family is siad to have been looking for their kin who disappeared without a trace on Tuesday morning after she went to hospital seeking treatment.
Ms Mildred Odira, who works as a switchboard operator for Foresight company based at Nation Centre, was last seen at 4am by security guards where she lived in Kariobangi South.
The security gourds had helped her hail a taxi to take her to Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital.
However after days of searching, Mildred Odira has been found dead and her body lying at City Mortuary days after she went missing.
Mildred Odira’s brother said her body had deep cuts on the forehead, neck and navel — injuries that seemed to have been inflicted with a sharp object.
Even worse, the brother pointed out that Ms. Odira’s killers crushed her legs by running them over with a vehicle.
“We are asking ourselves, what did Millie do… What debt did she have that the family could not have paid to necessitate such a brutal, inhumane murder,” posed her brother.
Her trouser was torn at the top and her underwear partly lowered.
Records at the morgue showed the body was taken there by Kasarani traffic police officers at 6.31am last Tuesday. Her identity was unknown at the time.
She is said to have left her house early morning on January 29, in Kariobangi South to head to Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital in Kasarani, Nairobi.
According to her sister, Mildred had been on medication for ulcers and her blood pressure had also been a reason for concern.
Her 9-year-old son, however, was the one who made the family raise questions on the whereabouts of his mother, after he failed to attend school that day.
Mildred Odira’s switched-off phone prompted her sister Maureen to visit her home, where the guards at the gate informed her that they had called a taxi driver to help Mildred get to hospital on Tuesday morning.
According to the hospital records, the driver entered the hospital gates at 4.30am and left at 5.57am.
But according to hospital records, the driver entered the hospital gates at 4.30 am and left at 5.57 am, 1 hour 27 minutes later, which contradicted the duration he had given her family.
It has now emerged that the driver spent only one minute in the hospital compound. CCTV footage shows the driver entering and immediately exiting without dropping anyone.
At Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital, administrators said they had no record of her being admitted to their facility
Her sister says they found out that she was not at home after her son came to her house in Kariobangi South on Tuesday morning, leaving her wondering why he was not in school.
“We saw her son come to our house in the morning and we asked him why he had not gone to school. He then informed us that his mother had left very early in the morning and that is when we started inquiring about her whereabouts,” she added.
Ms Anyango, who is the elder sister, added that they tried to reach her but her phone was off.
“We then went to her house and we were informed by security guards that they had called a taxi driver to take her to hospital,” she said.
Family members said the hospital told them they had no record of a person registered under that name.
The incident was reported at Kasarani police station where the taxi operator is being held as investigations continue.