NYAMIRA, Kenya, Oct 27-At about 10 pm on September 15, 2021, two polythene sacks, one black and the other red, were tossed out of a speeding vehicle at the Kisii-Nyamira-Ikonge junction.
It remained a mystery over whose body it was and the details of what had transpired were scanty. The human body parts had been cut into pieces and stashed in the sacks.
The victim’s head was missing.
Forensic examination of the body parts conducted by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters in Nairobi has however established that they are of the missing US-based Kenyan nurse. He has been missing for two months.
Thomas Oyaro had come back to Kenya for a brief vacation when he went missing.
At the point when his body parts were dropped along the road and taken to the morgue at Nyamira General Hospital, no one knew it was him.
His relatives and friends had hoped he would show up someday, and narrate his ordeal or at least explain where he was.
That was never to happen.
The family spoke to Shahidi News and is calling upon Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti to set up a team of investigators to probe the killing and ensure justice is served.
His nephew Douglas Orange said the postmortem examination report revealed that his external genitals were detached, legs and hands disjointed from the trunk, and his chest was badly torched.
“We call upon the DCI and ODPP to speed up investigations and arrest the suspects behind the inhumane killing of my uncle,” he said during an interview with Shahidi News.
“This case should not be treated in a simplistic way. He was a Kenyan citizen and an American employee as well.”
According to Orange, it is the fingerprints of the deceased that helped detectives to positively link the body parts as those of Oyaro.
According to the deceased’s wife Jackline Mokeira, he had come to Kenya for a one-month vacation, during which he was also set to oversee a construction project at their home in the Nyamarambe area in South Mugirango.
On August 14, he had spent the night with his family in Rangwe, Homa Bay County. The following day, he went to South Mugirango to supervise the construction project.
That was the last day he was seen alive.
“The last I heard from him, I was inquiring about the progress of our house,” she said.
Oyaro never went back to Homa Bay where his wife and kids were waiting.
His phone went unanswered and after 48 hours on August 16, it was switched off.
Concerned about his safety and whereabouts, she travelled to South Mugirango.
“I was told that he had left the site while riding on a boda-boda and proceeded to Nyamarambe to see yet to be known person,” she said.
A missing report was later filed at Nyamaiya DCI offices in South Mugirango
“It was until recently when the DCI detectives from Nairobi called and broke the news about my husband and where the body was,” a teary Mokeira said.
She described her late husband as “the most loving and kind person I knew about.”
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