"Motorcycle Accident Ruled Out in Malaba OCS Death"

 

The late Malaba Deputy OCS Tobias Murunga Masake.

By Godfrey Wamalwa

Two pathologists  who carried out a post-mortem examination to determine the exact cause of death of Malaba Deputy Officer Commanding Station, Tobias Murunga Masake, have ruled out initial reports that  he died from  motorcycle accident. 

The exercise was carried out at the LifeCare Morgue in Bungoma on Thursday  by a government pathologist and that of the deceased family. It was witnessed  by the immediate family, Teso North OCPD and Malaba OCS.

Family spokesperson and the deceased uncle, Mr Daniel Mogoria told the press that  Inspector Murunga, did not die from a road accident, but it was as a result of a "blunt object"  that hit the back of the head resulting in the cloating of the blood, adding that the skull was not broken and that the body had no bruises.

" The pathologists were in agreement that the officer might have been  killed  before his body was dumped at the scene where the body was found at Ketebat area along Malaba- Akichelesit- Angurai road," Mr Mogoria noted.

The 2022 gubernatorial aspirant had raised concerns over the glaring gaps concerning the quick response and the handling of the body  right from the scene to Kocholia Sub County Hospital to the LifeCare Morgue, in Bungoma Town.

" With  preliminary investigations  clearing the air on what might  have killed Murunga, the senior police officers of Teso police Division, who believed in a motor vehicle accident should step aside and allow other competent police and other independent  bodies to carry the investigation to bring the culprits to book. It is either incompetence or a deliberate move to cover the killers," he alleged.

Mogoria concluded: " It's  our resolute that the person who killed Inspector Tobias Murunga Masake is at large somewhere, and this person must face  justice."

 

February 10, 2025