A 30-year-old man was arrested recently in connection to an attack that was carried out at Yatta Funeral Home, Machakos County.
According to a police report the man in custody was the owner of the piece of land where the yatta funeral home is.
The land owner was engaged in a lawsuit with the owner of the facility. A court order was issued stating that the landlord pays a compensation fee of seven million to the owner of yatta funeral home, Mr. Mule, for him to vacate.
However, the landlord did not have that amount and wanted to scare off Mr. Mule. He therefore hired Goons to break into the facility.
Yatta sub-County Police Commander Bernard Rono confirmed the incident, saying the Goons broke into the morgue and stabbed the dead bodies before destroying hearses at the facility.
Mr Gideon Mule, the mortuary, accused the landlord of disobeying a court order requiring him to pay Sh7 million.
According to Mr Mule, the landowner hired goons to throw him out of the premises without first compensating him.
“He wants me to vacate, yet he has not compensated me according to the court order. I will only move after I receive the compensation payment, ” said Mr Mule.
Mr Mule revealed that the night attack left a hearse destroyed, with one of the bodies being preserved at the facility completely deformed.
In another incident police are investigating an incident in which unknown people broke into a mortuary and stole a corpse in nyandarua County.
According to the police, the mortuary attendant, reported that the suspects broke into the morgue and made away with the body of a 10-year-old minor.
The police further said a search was conducted in and outside the morgue and the said body was found in a septic hole. The body was retrieved while still intact and taken back to the morgue.
