Susan Kamengere: Family Vows Not to Lose Burial Rights for Woman Who Died after Forceful Admission
- Susan Kamengere died on July 17, at the Braeside Chiromo group and in a Facebook post before her death, she pointed an accusing finger at her husband, Alois Ngure for her admission
- The beloved nurse was known to many for her skills in handling babies and sharing informative pieces on infant care
- The autopsy results on her body were released on July 22, and the results shared by the pathologists saddened her family members, who are going to act on it
Nairobi, Kenya: The family of Susan Kamengere aka Toto Touch, who allegedly died after being hospitalised at the Braeside Chiromo Group has insisted that they will bury her.
Source: Facebook
The beloved lactation specialist sadly died on June 17, 2025, and her friend Muthoni alias Baby Top of Kameme FM, first reported her death with a lot of devastation.
According to the Kameme FM presenter, Susan had explained what she went through in an elaborate Facebook post that was allegedly deleted from the nurse's page, but she was later able to retrieve it.
In the Facebook post, Susan claimed that four people were sent to her house by a doctor Onyancha, who used to treat her, under the instructions of her husband.
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She was held down and injected, and the same was allegedly repeated at the facility.
Hours later, she was reported dead, and the news sparked outrage from her family, friends, clients on her Toto Touch page as well as ordinary Kenyans.
What happened to Susan Kamengere?
While at the Motenzuma Funeral Home, the late Susan's brother, identified as Ephantus Kamengere, said that he raised her since their mother died in 1994 and has been like a father to her all along.
He said they were satisfied with the preliminary results, and as a family, they may allow for a toxicology and other investigations that may help shed some light on what happened.
According to the pathologists, Susan sadly died by being denied air through strangling, and the news hit her family hard.
Source: Facebook
What did the Kamengeres decide on Susan's burial?
The distraught family had met at the Montezuma Funeral Home where a post-mortem was carried out on the body of the medic under the hawk-eyed pathologists representing different parties.
"My name is Ephantus Kamengere, we cannot lose our sister and lose the right to bury her. We will discuss it as a family and know how to do it," said her brother.
"This is an instruction to the Montezuma Funeral Home; nobody has a right to take the body, he said.
Can the family bury Susan?
Although the family has expressed the desire to bury their daughter, lawyer Collins Wanderi told TUKO.co.ke that there may be some hurdles.
"So far Alois Ngure has not been charged with any crime. If he is not charged with any offence related to the death of his wife he will be entitled to claim the right to bury his wife because he is in law her closest surviving relative," he said.
"If her family insists on burying her, this might trigger a long, drawn-out dispute. This is not more about the law per se but about morality, prudence, logic, and common sense. It is immoral to allow any person accused of murder or being an accomplice or accessory to murder to inter his victim. It is like allowing the murderer to benefit from his crime. Law and morality frown at such an eventuality," he added.
Who are the victims of Susan's death?
According to lawyer Collins Wanderi, the victims of Susan's murder are her children and blood relatives.
'They have a say in how her remains should be interred. If the husband is charged, they will have primus inter pares, i.e, the first priority to arrange for her burial," he said.
"Yes the family of the deceased will have a right to sue the hospital, her husband and all other people who were accomplices and accessories before, during and after her murder. However ,it is her children who are injured and her other blood relatives can only file suit against the hospital and the other people involved as "best friends" of the minors," he added.
Late Susan Kamengere's husband arrested
Another story revealed that the husband of Susan was arrested shortly after death.
Susan had a history of suffering from a mental health condition, which she acknowledged and also shared that she had been undergoing treatment over time.
In an audio clip, the lactation specialist implicated her husband, Alois Ngure, in her misfortunes over the years and also reported that he never wanted her to call him husband.
Proofreading by Asher Omondi, copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
Susan Mwenesi (Human-Interest editor) Susan Mwenesi is a Human Interest editor. She studied Journalism and Public Relations at TU-K, participated in HIV/AIDS Reporting Camp, and International Center for Journalists Early Childhood Development Reporting. Over the last 10 years, Susan has worked at K24, Baraka FM, Health Media, TechMoran.co.ke. She is a Bloomberg Media Initiative, National Geographic, International Centre for Journalists, KICTANet, AKU Graduate School of Media and Communications Digital ABC training by WAN-IFRA fellow. Email: susan.mwenesi@tuko.co.ke
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