The deaths of Diana Mumbi and Jacinta Achieng remain a
mystery even to the police. The two girls disappeared before they were
discovered dead.
Diana Mumbi was missing for a month before she was found
dead. Her family reported her missing in November and even launched social
media campaign to trace her.
Diana’s body was found at Kenyatta National Hospital
mortuary on Saturday December 16th. Mortuary attendants told the family that
the body was discovered poisoned at a lodging in Eastleigh, Nairobi and was
booked into the morgue by an unknown person on November 29th.
Diana disappeared when she left her sister’s house in Nakuru
to return to Nairobi on November 18th. She left saying she was returning to
campus at Multimedia University where she was a first-year journalism student.
Diana’s sister Doris say the deceased had been having
lengthy telephone conversations during her stay in Nakuru. Doris says her
sister never told her whom she was talking to.
Diana’s father Peter Mwangi however asserts that her
daughter was well behaved. He says the deceased didn’t have incidents of
indiscipline.
“She was very well behaved and we did not have incidents of
indiscipline with her. We never heard of anything to do with bad behaviour in
as far as she was concerned,” said Peter Mwangi.
27-year-old Jacinta Achieng was found dead only a week after
she was promoted at work. The deceased was an employee at CFC Stanbic Bank in
Nakuru.
Jacinta failed to show up at work on Friday November 24th
sparking worry among her colleagues. The previous night several text messages
were sent from her phone to her workmates telling them that she had been
admitted to hospital.
A decision was made to involve the police who gained access
into the house by breaking the door. This was after both her workmates and
family failed to trace her.
Jacinta’s lifeless body was found lying in a pool of blood
in her house. The deceased had multiple stab wounds all over her body.
“Whoever did it tried to burn down the house with her
inside, in fact, the carpet was set on fire but the fire died,” Wycliffe Olwal,
Jacinta’s brother-in-law said.
