Mystery d*ad bodies found in Kenyan river
Members of the local voluntary group, the Canaan Riverside Green Peace, remove debris from the Nairobi River after rains at Dandora slum in Nairobi on June 5, 2021
At least 20 d*ad bodies have been retrieved from a river in western Kenya in recent weeks.
Human rights group, Haki Africa says most of the bodies recovered from River Yala, which flows into Lake Victoria, were found in sacks, with some tied up and others damaged signifying that the victims had gone through toucher before being disposed being dumped into the river.
“What is shocking and extremely disturbing is that these bodies are actually dumped by individuals who so far remain unknown.” Haki Africa’s Executive Director Hussein Khalid
Haki Africa’s Executive Director Hussein Khalid added that the local mortuary was receiving the unidentified bodies and had buried nine of them in a mass grave to make space for more bodies.
Locals say unidentified people dump the bodies into the river at night.
Mr Khalid and another activist, Boniface Mwangi, travelled to the scene, and recounted seeing two bodies floating on the river.
We responded to social media reports of floating bodies in River Yala. We went to Siaya County and saw 21 unidentified male bodies.We saw 2 more floating in the River. @HakiAfrica has a list of 67 victims of enforced disappearances from 2021 and 8 so far in 2022. #RiverYalaBodies pic.twitter.com/A7yfuepEVj
— The People’s Watchman (@bonifacemwangi) January 17, 2022
