Diana Mumbi may not be a name that you are familiar with. The late journalism student from Multimedia University in Kajiado County had been missing for almost a month before she was found dead. For a family that should be experiencing the joys of this festive period, to bury a loved one.

Mr. Mwangi was not fruitful in his search with the police and he decided to go it alone. Going from mortuary to mortuary which had been something he had resisted doing in the slim hopes that his daughter was still alive. He said:

“I returned to the DCI headquarters on December 16 and the police told me they had not found my daughter. I decided to start looking for her in mortuaries, which I had initially told myself would be the last place I would search. I started at (Nairobi) City Mortuary then KNH. At the latter’s reception, I was told there was a body of an unknown female aged about 22. I requested to see the body and it was, unfortunately, and unmistakably, that of my daughter.”

According to the hospital, Ms. Mumbi’s body was taken to the mortuary on November 29. The family was told that she was found unconscious at a lodging in Eastleigh on November 19, having been poisoned.

“My poor daughter had been admitted to Ward D of the hospital from November 19 to 27. I do not know what happened to her; whether she was taken to the hospital by police officers or by civilians. I also do not know which lodging she had been found or who she was with.”

Doris said that her sister was having long phone conversations with someone whom she did not reveal. Doris said:

“The day before she left, she spoke with someone for a long time. After I left the house, she told my son that she was going back to college, and that is when I told dad.”

According to the Mortuary attendants, the body was discovered poisoned at a lodging in Eastleigh, Nairobi and was booked into the morgue by an unknown individual on November 19, which was barely a day after Mumbi left her sister’s home in Nakuru and failed to return back to the house. Additionally, the body had no signs of physical injury when it was received at the morgue.