Even after grappling with accepting that she had lost her beloved daughter in such a brutal manner, the cry for justice is also another mourning process for Muthoni and the rest of her family.
Her daughter was laid to rest on August 14.
She carried on with the hope that police who went to the scene and collected samples for evidence would share in the pain of losing such a young life and also maintain law and order in defending justice for victims such as Ngendo and her one year old daughter who will now be under the care of her grandmother.
But justice did not come as Muthoni expected.
Two weeks after the death of Ngendo, she was still keeping the bloodstained bed sheets to preserve evidence as directed by police.
By the time we interviewed Muthoni, the bed sheets were still kept in a make-shift structure in their home waiting for police to pick them up as promised.
How the police are handling the case pokes big holes on their commitment to find the killers of Ngendo.
Kayole Area police chief Samuel Mukindia confirmed that police had visited the crime scene but said there were no statements recorded by Muthoni, something that she however confirmed she had done on August 16.
“The mother to the deceased didn’t record a statement as she was not ready and she called me this week telling me that she is now ready to record her statement,” said Mukindia.
Something intriguing is that the police say they have a statement from the father for July 30 yet he supposedly arrived in the country on August 7.
“We managed to record statements from the father to the deceased, one of her friends and her ex boyfriend.”
In an interesting twist, Mukindia explained that police also did not find the bloodstained bed sheets that were in Muthoni’s custody; “the police on reporting to the crime scene did not find the alleged bed sheets from the crime scene.”
But after the Capital FM News crew informed him it had seen the bed sheets, he explained; “the investigating officer has a right to determine the usable evidence and that which is not used. The bed sheets were not picked what was picked was the knives. It is impossible to use the bed sheets right now as it will be impossible to get any valid evidence on that.”
Ngendo’s case is not unique. Numerous of Kenyans have lost relatives, friends and neighbours in such circumstances but for many years they continue waiting for justice. But how can they get justice if police can ask relatives to keep bloodstained bed sheets for two weeks and later say they were not at the scene?
What of the perpetrators of these erroneous crimes? They walk freely and are not even afraid of being caught since they see these sorts of weaknesses in our police who are unfortunately the investigators?
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