Police exhume body of a 9-year-old girl killed three years ago

The body of a nine-year-old girl who was defiled and strangled to death in Kakamega, allegedly by her relatives and buried three years ago, was exhumed on Thursday for the extraction of samples as part of a murder investigation.

The exhumation process was led by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Homicide Director Martin Nyuguto, Western Region Police Commander Issa Mohamud, Kakamega County Pathologist Dickson Muchana, police, and detectives from Kakamega Central Police Station.

The body of Susan Ambasa was disinterred in the Luanda Shop area, Lurambi Constituency, after the DCI secured a court order to extract toxicology and DNA samples for analysis after it emerged that the samples of the two suspects had gone missing from a government laboratory in Kisumu.

The Standard established that the suspects' samples were extracted alongside those of the deceased and taken to the government laboratory in Kisumu for analysis.

However, the results of the deceased and those of the suspects did not come out after it emerged that the samples mysteriously got lost, leading to the collapse of the case.

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The Standard learnt that an aunt of the two suspects, a police officer, is suspected  to have colluded with investigating officers, leading to the disappearance of the samples, which were later freed after two weeks.

The deceased's father, Mbiro Koinange, blamed police officers for tampering with investigations.

Western Regional Police Commander Issa Mohamud assured the family of justice and a fair investigation.

"I had already done a postmortem, which showed the girl was defiled and strangled to death, but the purpose of this process is to link the scenario with the suspects and help detectives in their investigations," said Dr Muchana.