Days after the self-confessed serial killer Masten Wanjala was murdered by a mob in his rural home in Mukhweya, Bungoma County, his family has refused to bury him.
According to one of his kins who spoke to a local media over the weekend, burying him in their Bungoma home would spell doom to the family.
The kin who chose to remain anonymous explained that having the serial killers body lay in their home would bring a curse not only upon the family but also the clan at large.
Eearlier on , Robert Watila, Wanjala’s father had requested the state to give him his son’s body for burial. However, the family is yet to collect his body from the morgue. They have since renounced any association with their infamous kin who hit the headlines for wrong reasons.
The family was also absent Wednesday, October 20, when a postmortem was conducted on the deceased’s body by detectives from the homicide team.
Abiud Musungu, an assistant chief at Mukhweya Village, revealed that the authorities have asked the family and the clan at large to take a DNA test and bury their son. However, the family rejected the call , asking for more time to deliberate over the matter.
The family member also disclosed that they had contemplated to suing the government over Wanjala’s death. They claimed foul play, specifically raising questions on how he managed to escape police custody yet he was always heavily guarded.
Wanjala was lynched by a mob on October 15 in his parent’s home in Mukhweya village, Bungoma County after he escaped from Jogoo Road Police Station in Nairobi, under unclear circumstances.
