A family in Mau Summit, Nakuru County is seeking justice after their eight-year-old son was found dead in an open and abandoned school latrine.

The body of Samuel Mwangi was discovered in the Mau Summit Primary School six days after he went missing.

In a media interview, Mwangi’s mother mother, Margaret Mbaire and his aunt Mary Njeri, recounted how he disappeared on October 13, 2024.

Mbaire said her son accompanied his peers to the St. Paul Catholic Church for the Sunday service as usual but never returned.

According to Njeri, the children were playing hide and seek in the Church premises and that’s when Mwangi went missing.

“So, the person they were playing with called out to him, but he didn’t respond,” Njeri said.

“I asked them, ‘Where is Mwangi?’ They said they were playing together and then lost him,” Mbaire said.

The search continued when his disappearance was reported to the Chief and subsequently to the Mau Summit Police Station.

Later, they circulated his photos online, but scammers tried to exploit their desperation.

“Someone called and said they were a police officer from Isbania Police Station. They said there’s a child named Samuel, and they found him, saying he had been kidnapped,” Njeri said.

Residents Join Search

After six days without any positive result, residents of Kazamoyo village volunteered to help in the search beginning from where he was last seen alive.

Njeri explained that they started searching within the Church premises before proceeding to the school where his body was found.

“We arrived at the church but didn’t see anything, so we went back to check the school. When we got to the school gate, they told us they didn’t have the key for the gate. We went further down and climbed over the fence. We separated, and people went to search different places in the school,” Njeri said.

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How the Body Found in School Latrine

Grace Wairumu, a resident of the village, said a grounds man at the school directed the villagers to check in pit where his cow was previously trapped.

“We found someone cutting grass named Samson, and he told them, ‘Over there, there’s a hole where my cow had fallen.’ When we went to check, he took a stick, inserted it into the hole, and removed the branches that had covered it. That’s when the child’s head appeared,” Wairumu said.

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Nakuru Residents Call for Prosecution of School Management

The residents want the school management to be held accountable for leaving the abandoned pit open posing a risk to children.

“I see the school is at fault because the hole is where another latrine had been demolished when they built a new one. They should have covered that hole. Also, they planted trees there, and the children were weeding around it on Friday, right next to the hole.”

The body of the deceased is currently at the Londiani Hospital morgue in Kericho awaiting a post-mortem examination.

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