{UAH} RECOVERED BODY IS NOT ICC WITNESS YEBEI'S - CID
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RECOVERED BODY IS NOT ICC WITNESS YEBEI'S - CID
PRESUMED ICC witness Meshack Yebei's mutilated body was yesterday identified by police as that of one Hussein Yussuf Borai.
CID officers told journalists the body, which has been at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary since January 1 and claimed by the Yebei family, is not his.
Yebei's relatives were left in shock at the morgue after Hussein's family turned up to claim the same body.
Ben insisted that the body is that of his brother and bears special birthmarks the family used to identify it.
However, Ben said the family will give the police time to carry out DNA tests, a proposal the relatives had previously rejected.
Yesterday police interrogated human rights activist Ken Wafula, who had earlier insisted that the body recovered from the Yala River on December 31 was Yebei's and spoke of attempts at a cover-up.
Hussein's family is from the Sirwa Posta area, near Chepsonoi in Nandi county, a few kilometres from the Yala River.
Speaking at the mortuary yesterday, head of Serious Crimes at CID headquarters John Kariuki said fingerprint analysis had confirmed that the body is Hussein's.
"This investigation is taking a different dimension. We took fingerprints from the body of a deceased person who was found afloat in the Yala River and they were found to be those of one Yussuf Hussein," said Kariuki, who has been leading the probe into the Yebei mystery.
He said the investigations took the CID to a place called Sirwa Posta near Kaimosi, where they found the Hussein family.
He said they found that the family is well known in the area and that Hussein had gone missing since December 25 but his relatives had no idea where he was.
"They came to the mortuary and identified the body. Sixty per cent through fingerprints, the identification is that of Hussein, but we are doing DNA testing so that we can confirm 100 per cent who this person is," said Kariuki.
He said the results of the DNA tests for both families will be out earliest Monday next week, and that the families were cooperating with the officers probing the matter.
Kariuki said Hussein had not been reported missing by his family because they thought he had travelled to Nairobi to see relatives.
"They thought that he is somewhere in Nairobi. He is a hustler and the last person he was with was around December 25, 2015. We are interviewing and interrogating everybody to establish the truth," said Kariuki.
Kariuki explained that using biometric identification methods, the fingerprints at the National Registration Bureau in Nairobi showed that the body was that of Hussein, leading the CID to search for his family.
Speaking on behalf of the Hussein family, Imam Mohammed Hamisi said they had confirmed that the body at the morgue was indeed that of Hussein.
Hamisi said Hussein had attended a party at their home on December 25 and then went missing.
"He was just a matatu tout back at home. Married with two children, he really had nothing. We don't know how he died, but, whoever did it should know that the truth will come out," said Hamisi.
He said Hussein was aged about 30 years and after examining the body closely, they had confirmed that it was his.
But Ben said 14 members of his family and the wife had used special marks on the body to identify it as Meshack's.
"We all knew him well. We used his finger and toe nails, along with other marks on the private parts of the body to identify it," said Ben.
He said they do not know the second family that had claimed the same body.
Ben said they would allow the CID to complete the probe and had decided to postpone the burial, which had been set for this Saturday in Kaptebee village, Uasin Gishu county.
Kariuki said since there were now two families claiming the body, the CID would carry out thorough investigations to unravel the truth. "We are going to interview many people so that we can unravel this problem," said Kariuki.
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