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| Mr Peter Miriti said a postmortem conducted at the Narok Level Five Hospital mortuary revealed that his daughter, Adah Nyambura, was tortured before she was brutally murdered. Photo credit: Gitonga Marete | Nation Media Group. |
The father of a first-year student at Maasai Mara University has revealed that his daughter was raped, burnt with an iron box, and strangled before being brutally murdered.
Speaking at his home in Mikunduri, Tigania East in Meru County, Mr Peter Miriti said a postmortem conducted at the Narok Level Five Hospital mortuary revealed that his daughter, Adah Nyambura, was tortured before she was killed. Nyambura's body was found in a bush near the campus, and the police are currently investigating the case.
According to Mr Miriti, Nyambura called him on Friday, informing him that she would travel home on Monday or Tuesday that week. She also informed him that she would attend a party with her friends that evening.
However, when he tried calling her on Saturday, there was no answer, and her phone went off later that day. This worried Mr Miriti and his wife, Isabella Karimi, as Nyambura would never refuse to pick up her mother's calls.
On Sunday, while they were in church, a police officer called and informed them that a body had been found dumped somewhere. Mr Miriti traveled to Narok, where he viewed the body at the mortuary and with the aid of DCI officers, traced his daughter's last moments trying to establish in whose company she was when she met her death.
Mr Miriti was informed that Nyambura was in the company of a man and other colleagues, but when the time came for them to leave at around 3 am, her boyfriend took her phone and left her in the club. She went home on Saturday morning, and that was the last time she was seen alive.
The man who took her phone is in custody, being questioned by the police, but the information Mr Miriti got contradicted the man's statement to the police that she went missing on Sunday morning. Questions have now emerged about where Nyambura was between Saturday morning and Sunday when she was reported missing.
The police have also revealed that Nyambura's body was found half-naked, and she did not have shoes. The killers must have murdered her somewhere and dumped the body in a thicket.
The iron box burns must also have happened in a room when the box was connected to power. Mr Miriti said that his daughter was his friend, and she would not hide anything from him. He revealed that after they spoke on Friday, he arranged for Nyambura to teach at a secondary school before reporting back to school in September.
Nyambura was a Bachelor of Education (Mathematics and Business) student, and her father had big plans for her. Her mother is so devastated that she's not talking. Mr Miriti has appealed to the police to speed up the probe because they want to know who killed their daughter.
Although justice will not bring her back, he hopes that justice will prevail. Nyambura's body is currently being preserved at the Meru Funeral Home awaiting burial on May 10. Mr Miriti has called on God to give them strength to accept this reality.