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Kenya: Oh, Gone Too Soon – Mystery of Bodies Dumped at Station

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When the decomposing bodies of two children were found in a car parked at the Athi River Police Station on Wednesday, a million questions were raised about the scene.

How did it happen, right inside a police station? Were any officers involved? Now, detectives suspect the children were ‘murdered’ elsewhere, before their bodies were moved to the station. But who had the courage to move them to such a place? That is the hard question.

They were found by a man who had gone to the station to collect his vehicle. “The children were reported missing on June 11 and we have been searching for them since then,” Athi River police boss Catherine Ringera said on Wednesday.

Alvina Mutheu and Henry Jacktone, aged three and four, were jolly good friends. They were last seen on June 11 in their neighbourhood near the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) in Machakos County.

WATER MELON

According to her mother, Catherine Munyiva, Alvina had been called by her father, Stephen Mulinge, to the ground floor of their apartment. He had brought his daughter a fruit, water melon.

Instead of returning home, Alvina — who was dressed in a purple sweater, a purple pair of trousers and orange boots — joined Jacktone in the neighbourhood.

They were part of a group of people who were watching a tractor that was digging trenches near their home before they suddenly disappeared. Until Wednesday evening.

Detectives from the Homicide Department of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) are now trying to find out how the bodies got to the station.

The difficult question, however, is who killed Alvina and Jacktone and why? Jacktone’s father, Cliftone Odhiambo, is a casual labourer at a ceramics factory, while Alvina’s dad, Stephen Mulinge, sells water for a living.

ACCIDENT SCENE

“Police called us and said that some bodies had been found. They told us to report to the station immediately,” said Mr Odhiambo.

What shocked the parents is that the bodies had been in the same station they had reported to when the children disappeared.

It’s still not clear how long the bodies had been there, and why the police were unaware of their presence until the vehicle they were in came to be collected by its owner.

The gray Toyota Belta, plate number KCT 510X and registered under Peris Ngugi, was involved in an accident on March 4. The damaged car was in May moved from its original location to create space for other vehicles.