The Kiambu businessman’s wife has asked well wishers to help her find the family of the woman her husband was cohabiting with when his car crashed into a dam in Juja. The mystery woman’s body remain unclaimed at Nairobi’s City Mortuary.
Ms Margaret Kiiru let Country know that nobody has appeared at the public mortuary to claim the body even as the burial of her husband Tirus Maina, 39 has been set for this Friday 27 January 2023 at his tribal home in Mukurei-ini Nyeri Province.
“We have not been able to identify the family of the young lady who drowned together with my husband in Juja on Tuesday because when she was retrieved from the dam, she had no identification documents. I have no problem getting to know who her family is or who can help us get to know them so that they can also have closure,’’ Ms Kiiru maintained.
A source at the city’s morgue confirmed to the case on Tuesday night that the body had not yet been picked up.
The Municipal Mortuary is one of Nairobi’s most densely populated morgues and is usually full due to the large number of unclaimed bodies recovered from its home county of Nairobi and surrounding areas. . It houses murder victims, killed and dumped, accidents, fire tragedies, and more.
Over the years, the facility has invited families to visit and check on missing loved ones before a facility run by the Nairobi County Government disposes of the latter, giving them access to the space.
Maina last week took his secret lover to Titanic his dam in Juja, which is 19 kilometers from his marital home in Thika town, Kiambu county, where his family lives.
But unfortunately for Tirus Maina, 39, on a particular time and day ,his car crashed into a river, killing the dual instantly.
He was easily identified after the number plates of his motor vehicle were shared online after the latter was retrieved from the killer dam.
Mr Maina had packed his Nissan X-trail at the edge of the dam and police sources and Kiambu fire and emergency department that retrieved their bodies as well as the motor vehicle told Nation they suspected two theories into the incident.
One, Mr Maina was drunk and instead of reversing the vehicle, drove into the dam either by mistake or intentionally and sank, another theory police are pursuing is that of a probable suicide theory.
Juja OCPD Phylis Muthoni, whose incident happened under her jurisdiction, told Nation last week that preliminary investigations have revealed that Mr Maina may have driven the motor vehicle into the river but maintained that they are still on the case to understand what really happened.
”We managed to retrieve the vehicle yesterday from the dam and we found it on drive mode meaning the deceased (Mr Maina) may have driven the vehicle into the dam by mistake. We are not ruling out any other factors into the incident and that is why because we are investigating the incident. I do not want to discuss it further until full investigation is complete,’’ Ms Muthoni told Nation.
Sarah Kiiru, the official wife to the deceased earlier said that she never suspected her husband was engaging in extra marital affairs outside marriage and was really saddened and shocked by his death.
She said My Maina has left home on the fateful Tuesday, telling her he was going to Kathiani , Machakos county where he was going to inspect a project that he had recently secured given he is a contractor.
Kiambu police commander Perminus Kioi, who is spearheading the investigations said, “There is nothing much to the investigations because it’s clear the occupant or occupants either intentionally or by mistake plunged the vehicle into the river. Unfortunately, they are both dead and no one can account or explain what really happened.”