Family demands probe into Lanet hit-and-run death

Ruth Wanjiru, who died in a road accident on August 10, 2025, in Lanet. Her family has petitioned DCI to conduct further investigations to establish if there was foul play in the accident. [Courtesy]

The family of a woman who died in an alleged hit-and-run accident in Lanet, Nakuru, that left her husband also maimed has disputed the account of police on how the incident occurred.

The couple, the late Ruth Wanjiru, 41, and Joel Kabari, are reported to have been run over by a motorist near Lanet Police Station on the Nakuru-Dundori road on August 10, 2025.