A family in Bungoma County is crying for help after the headless body of their kin was recently returned to Kenya from Malawi.
The family urged Foreign Affairs CS, Monica Juma, to intervene and help in tracing the head of their dead kinsperson, Geoffrey Wekesa, a 42-year-old man from Lukhokhwe Village in Tongaren Bungoma worked as a long-distance goods transporter.
According to the family led by Wekesa’s father, Yusuf Khaemba, their son died in a road accident in Malawi, 2,100kms away from Kenya.
“We were shocked on Monday to receive my son’s headless body. We don’t know where his head is,” recounted Khaemba.
Wekesa’s widow, Susan Nasimiyu, informed a local media house that her husband worked for a plastic tank manufacturing company headquartered in Mombasa, and was tasked to transport the products to different countries within the Eastern Africa region.
Wekesa’s body was transported via road from Malawi to Kenya and it is reported that his employer footed all the transport costs.
Human rights activists in Bungoma, led by Violet Magwilu, urged the State to intervene and help Wekesa’s family trace their loved one’s head to Malawi.
Wekesa’s body has been preserved at Kiminini Hospital morgue.