The family of the driver who was killed in the Congo forest opposes the army burying their son, they give reasons

• Edwin Njuguna Ngugi, a truck driver from Kenya who lives in Teso in Busia county, was found dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) under mysterious circumstances.
• His family were devastated after learning of his death ten days later through heartbreaking photos shared by fellow drivers on social media.
• Ngugi’s emergency phone call before his death revealed the involvement of the military and the desertion of rebel forces in the country, and that is how his end came.

kissKenya: The family of the late Edwin Njuguna Ngugi, who was killed in the Congo forest while transporting goods, has shared that some soldiers spoke to them and asked for permission to bury his body, but his mother refused.

Ngugi recently lost his father, who was a truck owner, and the boy was working for his father as a turnboy; he had to take the business, and this was his first trip to the country.

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Ngugi was found dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and his family learned of his death ten days later through photos shared by fellow truck drivers on WhatsApp.

Ngugi’s cousin shared details of his emergency call hours before he went silent, where he talked about the soldiers who later abandoned him in the hands of the rebels.

How did other Kenyan truck drivers react to the incident? His fellow long-distance drivers who heard about the brutal death were deeply saddened; when they saw the video of his body going viral, they asked for protection.

Some people wondered why the young driver was alone and called on drivers to plan their safety when driving in the country.

“Soldiers from that country asked me for permission to bury my son’s rotting body there, but as a human being I refused. I am asking for help from the government to bring his body back home,” said his mother

How did other Kenyans take the death?

jaykiym: “I wish he would have seen there was no help…he would have left the car and gone.”

Kagesh1: “God protect daddy even though he betrayed me🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼.”

alicia254: “God protect all cadres in the name of Jesus😭😭 this hurts me a lot.”

d katoi: “So Kenya is the only country where foreigners are safe.”

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Millicent Kaleha: “My question was, when the soldiers who were guarding him left, wouldn’t he just go with them saying… your life is more valuable than someone’s property.”

Albert Mwangi: “All truck drivers should stand together and protest this death, all people living in Kenya should call them murderers, because we as Kenyans love peace but not killing.”

Ngugi made the last phone call before death

Another news revealed that Ngugi made an emergency call to his cousin at home and shared his situation after his truck broke down.

Ngugi sent a voice message to his cousin shortly before he was killed, and this caused the family to also start searching for him.

His family asked for help to retrieve his body from the Democratic Republic of Congo after failing to reach his employer, who has been silent since the incident.

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