Protests erupted after the body of a 7-month-old baby who died of pneumonia disappeared from Kerogoya Referral Hospital.
Family and friends mounted protests demanding explanations from the mortuary as to where the body was taken to prepare it for burial.
But the hospital did not offer any answers on why the body could not be traced. The baby's family has accused the hospital's management of being irresponsible.
According to the Nation, the child's mother Purity Wangari expressed her dismay in the manner in which the hospital handled the matter adding that the mortuary could not provide answers on how the body went missing.
"Mortuary attendants and the hospital management should tell us where they took the body of my daughter," Wangari stated.
"I could not believe it when mortuary attendants told us the body had vanished into thin air. I wanted to give my daughter a decent send-off but now I'm confused," she added.
This comes amid a spate of cases of kidnappings and bodies going missing from mortuaries raising questions among loved ones who have to inter their loved ones in absentia. The government also hasn't provided an insight into the increase of these crimes.
Cases of kidnappings have been rampant in the country. Arguably 2020 and 2021, could rival 2017 as the darkest year in the country when countless stories of kidnappings grabbed national headlines.
In 2017 Kenya recorded 138 kidnappings incidents, translating to an abduction incident every 2 and a half days.
According to a 2021 report by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Kenya was among the 148 countries where more people were reported to be at risk of becoming victims of human trafficking.
In 2020 the Kenyan Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) raised a red flag over new tactics employed by traffickers to lure victims during the coronavirus pandemic.
