Medic reported missing last week found dead

Homicide detectives in collaboration with members of trhe public retrieved the body of Jane Wambui Njoroge from a shallow grave at her compound. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

A Naivasha based medic reported missing last week has been found dead.

The search for Jane Wambui Njoroge, a clinical officer stationed at Naivasha sub-county hospital ended on a sour note after her decomposing body was discovered buried in a shallow grave in her compound in Raini village.

The discovery comes a day after her house-help was arrested in connection with her whereabouts.

Emotions ran high as DCI officers exhumed the body, with initial investigations revealing that she would have been killed using a blunt object.

Wambui, who is a pediatrician at the facility, was last seen on Friday last week in the hospital, and her whereabouts remained unknown before the family reported the matter to police.

According to her husband, John Kimani, he last spoke to his wife on Friday last week before he received another call on Sunday that she was missing.

Kimani, who works in Kitale, said that he authorised members of the public who had gathered in his compound to break into the house to check whether she was inside.

“My wife has been suffering from cancer, and when I was told she was missing, I gave orders to those present to break in, and they did not find anything,” he said.

He told of his shock after learning that their house-help, whom they had assisted for many years, had been arrested after she was incriminated in her disappearance.

“The house-help was once my tenant, whom we agreed to support as she could not pay her rent, and I am still in shock that she had something to do with this murder,” he said.

Naivasha Sub County police commander Antony Keter confirmed the arrest, adding that the middle-aged woman led the investigating officers to the scene.

He said that detectives from the directorate of criminal investigations are pursuing other suspects who could have been involved in the murder and the burial.

“The family made a report of a missing person, and after investigations, we arrested one suspect who led us to the scene, and we are seeking more,” he said.

A cleric, Nancy Wanjiku from PCEA church, told of their agony as they sought the missing medic since last week, only to learn that she had been murdered.

“She did not attend church on Sunday, which is unlike her, and we embarked on a search mission, and, sadly, it has ended in a shallow grave,” she said.