Caroline Mwatha, a lady who might have taken her last breath in the hands of unscrupluos individuals continues to get attention even in death.
This is majorly because of the fact that she died under mysterious circumstances with her death raising more questions than answers.
One of the ways to help unravel the mystery behind her death would be to conduct an autopsy on her.
Well, an autopsy was scheduled to take place yesterday but it did not see the light of the day all thanks to Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor.
According to Activist Florence Kanyua, the postmortem planned for yesterday was pushed to next Monday, with an excuse that chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor was in Naivasha.
“It is them who told us that the postmortem would be carried out today? Why was it postponed to Monday? Is Oduor the only pathologist who can do it?” she asked.
It was later learnt that Oduor was in Arusha. It later emerged that the postmortem is to be done today.
Transparency International director Khalid on the other hand said that they had even come with their independent pathologist to work together with the government’s pathologist only to be told that the process could not hold.
Meanwhile,Human rights groups and the family of activist Caroline Mwatha yesterday dismissed police reports that she died after a botched abortion.
Caroline’s father Stanslaus Mbai said the police’s narrative was “hollow, nondescript and not true”. He spoke at City Mortuary, where they camped to wait for a postmortem.
Caroline worked for Dandora Community Justice Centre, a human rights lobby that fights against extrajudicial killings, police brutality and enforced disappearances. It has been documenting police executions in the estate and its environs.
“Saying that Caro died from an abortion operation gone wrong is hogwash. We’ve been with her and we know that she was not pregnant,” Mbai said.
Husband Joshua Ochieng’ expressed dismay at the allegations, saying the abortion theory could not hold.
“If she was supposedly aborting for fear of ruining her marriage, why would she wait to do that after five months?” he asked. “Why didn’t she do it in the first month or two or even less?”