Missing Nairobi Human Rights Activist Caroline Mwatha Found Dead

Caroline Mwatha, a human rights activist from Dandora, Nairobi has been found dead seven days after she went missing.

The body of Ms. Mwatha was found at City Mortuary in Nairobi on Tuesday afternoon.

The body of the deceased was reportedly booked at the morgue by a private citizen at around 4 am on Tuesday.

Mwatha went missing on Wednesday last week with her disappearance being reported by her family at Buru Buru Police Station.

She is a founder member and caseworker with Dandora Community Social Justice Centre, which speaks against extrajudicial killings.

According to Daily Nation, police investigations have established that Mwatha, who was five months pregnant, died at a clinic in Dandora where she had reportedly gone for an abortion.

The owner of the clinic and a doctor have reportedly admitted that "they took the body to the mortuary and booked her under a different name and indicated she died of diarrhea", Daily Nation reports.

Police are said to have seen text messages of the activist planning the abortion with the clinic's owner.

Police spokesperson Charles Owino says two suspects have been arrested in connection with her death.

"We have two suspects in custody and they are the ones who led detectives to the mortuary," Owino says.
 

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Submitted by njai on Tue, 02/12/2019 @ 12:27pm

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What's this nonsense about holding the police as the main suspect every time a Kenyan goes missing? It's sickening how we perceive and treat our law enforcement officers.

Submitted by Mugikuyu on Tue, 02/12/2019 @ 02:00pm

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The police officers have really proven to be thugs of a different kind. This lady had been investigating them for the longest time now she is dead following abortion? They can try another lie. Time for human activists to rise up if there are any left.

Submitted by Kenya on Tue, 02/12/2019 @ 02:09pm

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Why couldn't the quack doctors who were treating her their clinic say they have her. For all those days people were looking for her they kept quiet.

Reread twice and shook my head 20times...., she was in social justice and of extrajudicial killings, a Human rights activist, (really). And so in her own mind her 5month old fully formed baby in her utero didn’t need justice....?

Shame on you dead lady .... if you had any education and a clue what human rights are,you had 4months to deliver and if that baby could have been a burden to you, why not hand her to your social justice office, drop her off at Dandora children’s home.

I guess you calculated death of an innocent fetus but God punished you...

My sincere condolences to your mom/dad for losing an innocent grandchild.

For you talk to your Gods and satun

Don’t rush on me people it’s my faculties today!

@njai..... my faculties have always been passionate and compassionate. But these so called lady just blew my faculties of the hooks... how dare she kill a baby ... she is extraordinarily extraducial killer... she talked and never walked the talk... karmas will always get ya... hung by the noose with Satan and may Jesus candle the baby and cleanse your sins off her/he. May she dance for Jesus these beautiful baby who never got a chance.

Forget the doctor ... my faculties tells me... the lady used her pussycat to please men, pussycat swam the spermatozoa. Beautiful babes was formed in a mother’s womb. Mother pussycat felt sooooo good as she calm, kissed and hugged and washed off then she took avfile and a paper to truck thecso called killers... month one no periods running down her noono pussycat. Then realized spermatozoa formed a fetus in utero...

She simply calculated, did not love the fetus and decided to use her extraordinarily extrajudicial killing of baby...

Soo she drove, was driven and paid a doc to help her kill

For now I will die he for just above

Shine on your way 5month old fetus .. Rest Well !

Submitted by Mgeni on Tue, 02/12/2019 @ 06:00pm

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Mambo mengi sana yanafanyika duniani, it's hard to comment on matters we know little/ nothing about. While you sleep people are plotting. People are playing "god"! Aimlessly killing people. It is my humble prayer that the only TRUE and ALMIGHTY GOD rises up against those who kill. May He make them face the same fate. R.I.P.

Submitted by Kenya on Tue, 02/12/2019 @ 08:19pm

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Dropping a dead body into a mortuary is not like dropping cabbages into the market. Somebody must have filled all the documents required in city mortuary.

Submitted by njai on Tue, 02/12/2019 @ 10:40pm

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@Sukari, you've not been following this case in the local media since the lady disappeared. All manner of accusations have been levelled against the police, complete with a demonstration against the "murder" of the human rights activist.

Submitted by Sukari on Wed, 02/13/2019 @ 04:38am

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@Njai, thanks for the tip. Was clearly oblivious of the background. Having said that, I remember I read about her and her job a while ago in which she was speaking of her job and how she wanted to expand it. I knew she would step on toes and would not last long. To respond to your original question, the Police should always be held to account as a public service. They are not beyond this, hence Kenyans are within their right to demand justice where things don't add up. Her death looks dodgy to me, just like Musando, Saitoti, etc..... all very dodgy in this dodgy land of ours where the fat cats skim the cream whilst the under dogs struggle to make a living. I don't buy that abortion B.S.

Submitted by njai on Wed, 02/13/2019 @ 11:36am

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@Sukari reports say that three people who tried to assist her with the said abortion are already in police custody. Let's wait for the postmortem before we point fingers.

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