Samuel Mararo, the University of Nairobi (UoN) Lecturer found dead at City Mortuary after going missing for days, was attacked while on his way home from a funeral in Vihiga County.
Speaking to the media, his brother, Joseph Kagiri said the lecturer had left his home in Kariobangi South on February 16 to attend the burial of the father of one of his student’s father.
According to the brother, Mararo arrived safely in Vihiga and attended the burial ceremony on Saturday, February 17.
He would then board a bus to come back to his Nairobi home at midnight on Sunday, February 28 and assured his wife that he would be home on Monday morning.
However, his wife would later receive reports that the bus Mararo boarded broke down along the way and would as such delay his arrival.
At the time, the deceased lecturer even sent photos of mechanics working to fix the bus as an assurance to his wife.
Unknown to the wife, however, that was the last time she would hear from the husband.
According to his brother’s narration, the wife started receiving suspicious calls and text messages from a man who did not sound like his husband.
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How family members knew UoN lecturer was missing
To raise further suspicion, the mysterious callers were asking for small amounts of money in the region between Ksh500 and Ksh1,000.
At this point, the wife figured that the caller was not her husband and filed a missing person report at a police station.
“The caller kept asking for small amounts of money between Ksh500 and Ksh1,000,” the brother is quoted telling the Nation.
As part of their search efforts, the family sent out a missing person advert requesting members of the public with information about his whereabouts to reach out to them via a phone number.
Alternatively, the family requested anyone who could have seen the lecturer whose selfie was included in the notice to share the information with police officers at Kamukunji Police Station.
After days of intense searching, the family finally identified a body at the City Mortuary in Nairobi as their kin’s.
Joseph Kagiri, the deceased’s brother noted that the body did not have any external head injuries and as such deduced that he could have been caught up in a mugging incident.
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Nairobi Police Commander Adamson Bungei also confirmed the death of the Political Science Lecturer at the UoN, and assured that investigations were underway.
According to an autopsy conducted at the mortuary, Mararo’s body had signs of strangulation of the neck, and he had injuries on his hands.
Police officers also reported that investigations established that the yet to be identified perpetrators had withdrawn some Ksh9,000 from an M-PESA outlet in Kayole, Nairobi.
His body, according to the police, was found at Nairobi’s Bus station on Tuesday, February 20 morning, hours after he arrived in Nairobi.
