By Wairimu Kamande
It was a mysterious death and the pursuit for the killers appears to be turning elusive.
Some say the elderly woman died as a result of a road accident, but others claim she was murdered.
Seven months after Hannah Wangari Thuita’s death in July at Makuyu, no suspects have been arrested. The death has brought conflict within the family.
Her son, Benson Kamau, recalls how he received a call from his relative at around 6.30am informing him of his mother’s death after she was allegedly accidentally run over her with a vehicle earlier that morning.
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Hannah Wangari
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Later, Kamau says the family sought a private pathologist who conducted a second post-mortem in the presence of the police doctor.
The doctor’s report concluded that injuries on Wangari’s body were not consistent with a road accident.
She bore multiple rib fractures, a fracture of the right femur and a compound fracture on the pelvic bone. She had bruises on temporal regions, thighs and right knee.
The doctor concluded she died of massive chest bleeding due to torn lungs as a result of broken ribs.
However, the relative has denied causing the death of the woman deliberately. He says pathologists concluded that the woman died following a traffic accident.
Malicious people
But he does not have a copy of the report.
The relative says he had asked Ng’ang’a and the others to help him push a vehicle. But after pushing it for about 100 metres, he realised the rear wheels had run over something. When he checked, he discovered that the vehicle had run over Wangari. He says he suspects she was hanging on the vehicle and then fell.
"These are malicious people who wanted to claim compensation from the insurance," he said.
Asked why police have delayed establishing the cause of Wangari’s death, Murang’a South OCPD, Anthony Onyango says investigations were launched last year.
"We forwarded the files to the AG but are yet to get directions. That is why we have not arrested anybody," he said calling on Wangari’s family to be patient.
"We have pursued the matter for so long but nothing seems to be happening. Justice seems to have eluded us," laments Kamau.
"What the family needs is not money," says Kamau. " We need justice," he concludes.
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