The family of police officer Caroline Kangogo was forced to call off her burial following a standoff with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
Kangogo was set to be interred on Saturday but the family changed the plan at the last minute after a postmortem examination scheduled for Friday failed to take place.
Family and relatives arrived at the Iten hospital morgue on Friday ahead of the autopsy but no pathologist turned up for the procedure.
Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor said he was not informed of the intended autopsy.
“I am just asking for the body of my daughter to be released. It is shocking that on Tuesday, the DCI informed us to plan for Saturday burial since the autopsy will be conducted on the eve of the funeral,” Kangogo’s father Barnaba Korir told reporters outside the morgue.
“We did not sanction the postmortem and we are demanding the release of the body of my daughter. I have no issues. I don’t understand why they didn’t inform us that they were not going to facilitate the autopsy. Honestly, we could have postponed the funeral.”
On Saturday, the family announced they had called off the burial until after an autopsy to ascertain the cause of Kangogo’s death is done.
“We have been promised by DCI officers in Iten the autopsy will be conducted on Tuesday. We are waiting for that day then we plan for the burial,” her brother Mark Kangogo told journalists.
Kangogo, who was wanted over the murder of Police Constable John Ogweno (28) and businessman Peter Ndwiga Njiru (32), was found dead at her parents’ home in Elgeyo-Marakwet on July 16th.
She is alleged to have shot herself dead inside a bathroom at her parents’ home in Nyawa village.
She shot herself! Just like…
She shot herself! Just like she pulled the trigger on those two other unlucky guys. Why waste tax payers money searching for an obvious answer!
Comrade Justin,
She didn’t…
Comrade Justin,
She didn’t kill herself….DCI KILLED HER.
JUSTIN, I believe that you have common sense..Right?
From what we’ve learned so far nothing seems to make any sense.
@little frog – she deserved…
@little frog – she deserved to die no matter how she died! Did you want to marry her? And common sense tells me she shot herself in the head because she was a coward!!
Comrade Justin,
We need to…
Comrade Justin,
We need to stop believing everything we read in the media. At least common sense dictates that.
So you do not believe she…
So you do not believe she shot two men to death? It was in real life and in the media! Would have like to spend a night with her while she had a loaded gun next to your head? Come on now! Comrade little frog, I’m sure you are that stupid, dum or both!
Comrade Justin,
I believe…
Comrade Justin,
I believe she shot 2 people dead.
But what caused her to do this?
What drove her to this?
I’m not the smartest person, but I’m not the dumbest either.
Please just try using some common sense.
She did not shoot herself…
She did not shoot herself…we need forensic evidence…the big fish in DCI were running some shady deals and those three had to go is what am saying
If this was a guy no one…
If this was a guy no one would be defending her(him). She was so innocent blah blah blah. I too had doubts till I saw the video from the motel. So I’m doubting she was not a killer.