NYAMIRA, Kenya Dec. 1 -The slain Nyamira teacher Ezekiel Nkeere Gitangwa was killed over a love triangle and pleaded with the killers to spare his life.
Nyamira South DCI boss told Shahidi News a nurse, in whose house the body was found, and his boyfriend were the key suspects in the brutal murder.
According to witnesses, the deceased was on Friday morning seen entering the compound of Agnetta Agwata, a nurse, before desperate cries for help were heard.
Neighbors said they heard loud screams coming from Ms Agwata’s house for a few minutes but it was silenced by loud music.
“Please help me, kindly forgive me we are one people, we can talk over this,” these words that came out from this house in Ekegusii before the volume of the music went high.
The said nurse then stepped out of the house and told the neighbors not to worry about the screams saying she was watching a movie and playing music at the same time.
Gitangwa 47, went missing on December 30 before his mutilated body was found in a chicken house at Egesieri village in the outskirts of Nyamira town. He had left his residence to attend a church wedding which he did not.
Eye witnesses said his badly tortured, with eyes gouged out.
“The body was naked and badly mutilated with deep cuts on the head, thighs and arms cut off. It seems the assailants used very sharp objects,” said Dennis Orare.
He further said some body parts were burnt using some chemicals and the burns were visible in parches.
A boda boda rider who was at the investigation offices in Nyamira said at around 9am he picked his customer from Geteri who requested to be dropped at Egesieri, about 3 kilometres away.
John Ondari, a neighbor, said Ms Agwata house was usually frequented by different men but at the time of the attack, it was not known who were in the house.
Detectives said Ms Agwata and her boyfriend switched off their phones and disappeared after the body of the slain teacher was discovered in her house.
“We established that Ms Agwata’s phone was switched on in Kisii at Paramount Building and quickly switched,” police said.
The deceased’s body, which had started decomposing, was found covered in a purple carpet. His wife, Gladys Bonareri Achoki, told the police that his phone went off a few hours after he left home.
She however assumed that the phone had run out of power and hoped to see him back home in the evening.
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