- A group of angry youths stormed a mochari in Nairobi demanding to be given the body of their friend Nicholas Kyalo
- Kyalo died after being swept away by the severe floods that hit Nairobi on March 6
- The strange incident caused confusion and stopped activities in the mochari for a while while the youth shouted the name of their friend
Violence broke out in a mortuary in Nairobi after a group of youths invaded and demanded to be given the body of Nicholas Kyalo.
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Kyalo died tragically after being swept away by a flash flood on March 6, which caused extensive damage to the capital.
The angry young men entered the mochari, took the coffin meant to carry the deceased, and ran away with it.
A few minutes later they realized that the coffin was empty without a body inside, which forced them to go back to the morgue.
They were calling Kyalo’s name out loud claiming that the mochari bill had already been paid by the former governor of Nairobi, Mike Sonko.
“We have clear instructions from Mike Mbuvi Sonko. He has given us a budget to pay all the bills here at City Mortuary,” said one of the young men.
The shocking incident temporarily halted activities at the mochari and left many onlookers shocked and confused.
“We are only here to mourn our friend who died in the flood. We want a body,” said another boy.
Finally the body was released to the family, and they placed the casket in the hearse that was waiting outside.
Who paid the utility bills for the flood victims?
Apart from Kyalo, more families flooded the mochari to collect the bodies of their loved ones.
This came after Sonko, through his rescue team, paid their bills and handed over coffins to the deceased, thus reducing the burden on the affected families.
Among them was the family of Leonard Bonke and Naomi Mtinda, who lost her child during the disaster.
“When I was in the water, my child was on my back. Then I saw a container and decided to swim towards it to help us float. I shouted to the people nearby who helped me out, then I realized that my child was no longer anywhere,” said Mtinda.
Netizens are talking about the violence at City Mortuary
Maureen Kayeli:However, I believe that when Raila said goodbye, the coffin the soldiers were sitting in was empty.”
Lissa Lizz Gentle: “And it’s not Mike Sonko who has paid all the mochari bills, let them rest and be given a body. Where are they going with the casket, surely. You are playing with Gen Z of Kibera… you will know, you don’t know.”
Moses Njogu:Everything is possible in Kenya except voting for the right president. Think… I thought the government was responsible for those people.”
Horace Ongili Omolo: “A coffin without someone will not feel heavy? Either they were drunk. Why are you stuck with the body, if it cools down they steal it.”
Did kanjo and the police fight at City Mortuary?
In other news, TUKO.co.ke reported that police officers were prevented from taking unidentified bodies into the City Mortuary.
This followed instructions from the office of Governor John Sakaja, as the morgue already had 607 bodies—a number far exceeding its storage capacity of 184 bodies.
After the order, tension arose between police officers and Nairobi County (Kanjo) officers after the bodies remained in their car for nearly nine hours.
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