The family of a man who died mysteriously while attending a wedding in Mvindeni, Diani, four months ago is demanding justice over what they term foul play.
In an interview with Citizen TV on Saturday, Parents to the late Kennedy Obura revealed that their son had been invited to serve as the best man at the wedding in November last year.
Upon arrival, however, he was informed that the event had been postponed and forced to live in a rented house awaiting the new date.
While there, however, he passed away under mysterious circumstances and his body later discovered bearing deep cuts.
"You can see physical injuries on his hand which were three centimeters deep," Obura's father stated while showing images to the press.
"I want justice because the person (suspect) and his sister, who called him (the deceased), sent my son money on his phone to buy a suit," the mother recalled.
"My son spent Thursday night getting the suit ready knowing he was going to his friend's wedding as the best man. Getting there, he was told there was no wedding. They were told to go for dinner."
The parents, however, revealed that they were dissatisfied with the investigations conducted and accused a suspect who is still at large of influencing the outcome.
The father argued that the clothes their son was wearing the day of his death were not taken in by police for analysis while their efforts to get his death certificate were hit with a lot of resistance.
"I have worked in court and I understand the procedures. Murder clothes with blood are usually taken and forwarded to the government's chemist for analysis but they were not taken there," the father wondered.
"Recently, we went asking for a death certificate but they told us they did not have it. When his father demanded a letter to present to Mombasa authorities, they then asked them to wait for the letter," the mother corroborated.
After being frustrated by police in Diani, the family forwarded the case to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Nairobi where investigations are still ongoing.
Postmortem analysis showed that the deceased died from deep cuts wounds and brain trauma sustained from a blunt object.
