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Kenya: Kisumu Man Suspected of Killing, Burying His Brother Arrested

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A man from Kagak village in Nyakach, Kisumu County has been arrested over claims of killing and burying his elder brother in his bedroom. The dead man went missing two months ago.

According to Oboch Location Chief Jonathan Ogire, the body was found on Monday evening.

Relatives and locals expressed suspicions that the body of Mr Joseph Ochieng, 45, who had been missing for close to two months had been found.

He later engaged the family members who took them to the house of the suspect, 30-year-old Clinton Ochuodho, where they the remains of Mr Ochieng were found.

They rushed to the local police station and reported the matter and later accompanied the officers to the scene of crime together with the suspect.

DRINKING CHANG’AA

Mr Ochuodho was dragged from a chang’aa den and forced to go back to his house.

According to the chief, the two were staying together and it is suspected that they might have disagreed before Mr Ochuodho killed his elder brother.

“It appears they had quarreled before one of them died. But when I spoke to Ochuodho, he told me while crying that his brother had been missing but he suspected he had died,” said Mr Ogire.

According to the suspect, his brother told him three days before he went missing that he was going on a job-seeking mission in Thessalia, Muhoroni.

“We, however, did not buy his story because he could be seen on numerous occasions donning all the good clothes and shoes that belonged to his brother. We had a feeling that if Mr Ochieng had gone on safari for that long, he would not have left behind his clothes,” said Mr Ogire.

On Tuesday, police secured the scene as they waited for for experts to exhume the body Wednesday morning.

ORPHANS

The two, who are orphans, were staying in the small house located in an isolated place where people do not frequent owing to its steep and rocky terrain.

The mud walled incomplete house has two rooms, a sitting room and a bedroom where the old mattress was found.

Mr Ochuodho has been sleeping in the sitting room of the house.