Kisii: Sorrow as Boy, 3, Is Found Dead, in Water Drum After Neighbour Invited to Play with Son

• The family of Moses is in pain after their three-year-old son sadly died after they left him playing with the neighbour's child
• Moses was hale and hearty after they left him, but when they returned home, he was in a pink water drum
• The family is now appealing for justice, as they found Moses with strangling and also marks on his cheeks

Kisii, Kenya: Friends and family of a three-year-old baby Moses who was sadly found dead in a water drum are shattered, as they left him hale and hearty when leaving the home.

According to the sister-in-law of the baby, identified as Peninah Kwamboka, she received a call, and the caller shared that her nephew (Grace’s son) had been found dead

" I asked why he could be found dead, and he wasn’t sick. The caller urged me to rush home and I did," she said.

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According to Kwamboka, the baby Moses had been in the care of her grandmother as usual, but on this day, she left the baby with my youngest sister-in-law and went to the road.

"The kid was crying, seemingly he was trying to sleep but couldn’t. The neighbour learnt about it and advised Joyce (my sister in law ) to let him come out and play with his two-year-old kid. Joyce agreed, and the neighbour further advised her to accompany his daughter to go and do Laundry in the river if she had dirt clothes," explained Kwamboka.

"Joyce was hesitant, as there was no laundry soap in the house, but the neighbour told her that he could offer her the laundry soap," she added.

Why wasn't there anybody in Moses's compound?

In the meantime, nobody else was left in the compound, as Joyce left for the river with the neighbour’s daughter. When Moses' grandmother returned home, she found the front door closed (however, she discovered later that the back door was open).

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Joyce and the baby weren’t there, so she began looking for them and asked the neighbour if he had seen the baby. The neighbour advised her to look for him in his elder son’s home, but she didn’t find him there.

She came back, entered the house through the back door, and called “Mose Mose” unfortunately, there was no response.

Later, she found the kid in a pink water drum (empty) within the house. She assumed the kid had probably fallen inside while peeping and fallen off to sleep inside the empty water drum.

She picked him up, put him on the bed to change his clothes, before letting him continue sleeping on the bed. It was in the process of changing his clothes that she found out that his body was motionless.

"When looking at the baby, we realised that he had swollen cheeks with finger marks, a sign that he was slapped hard. Also, there were scratches on the neck, an indication that someone strangled him. He was also bleeding from the nose and mouth," said Kwmaboka.

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How did Moses' grandmother react?

According to Moses' grandmother, identified as Jane Moraa, she identified Moses in an upright position, but while trying to change him, he was limp.

According to baby Moses' uncle, identified as Charles Mokua, he received a call around 1:00 pm while at work and was informed that they had lost Moses.

"When I arrived home, I found him dead. I called the assistant chief, and he advised us not to do anything to the body until the police arrive at the scene," he said.

"Police came to the scene and observed baby Moses, only to discover that he had finger marks on the cheeks and marks of strangulation on the neck," he added.

Mokua appealed to the government to conduct a thorough investigation into the incident and get justice for his nephew, although he is dead.

"We also appeal to well wishers to help our family in funeral preparation and medication for our sick sister. We ask churches to pray for us as our family is experiencing a lot of difficulties," he added.

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In a separate interview with TUKO.co.ke, Kwamboka recounted the last conversation with Moses on the fateful day.

"As I was leaving home that early morning, Moses told me to bring him maandazi when I return home in the evening. He always loved maandazis, and I promised to keep my vow to him. I did not know it would be the last day to talk to him," she said.

Kwamboka also narrated that the family faced several challenges, as there was one child who had an underlying medical condition.

She recounted the day she married into the family and the medical state her mother-in-law was in that broke her.

"She had jiggers all over. She was quite sick as well. No one is financially stable in this family, and unfortunately, the neighbours are against them. I noticed whenever we wanted to do something to progress, the neighbours always tried to press us down. We cannot progress," she claimed.

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Kisumu mother collapses after 4-year-old son

In another story, tragedy struck Manyatta Estate in Kisumu after a four-year-old boy identified as Morgan Odhiambo, sadly, slipped into an open septic tank and died.

Although people came from all corners to help him, including administering first aid and taking him to the hospital, the young boy sadly died.

The incident sparked outrage over negligence, with residents saying that the tank was reportedly left uncovered with the caretaker and landlord absent.

Source: TUKO.co.ke