Cover-ups at City Mortuary? Fake records surface amid outrage over police killings

Could authorities be deliberately falsifying documentation of bodies recovered from protest scenes?

Details are emerging of bodies of victims killed in protests but recorded at the City Mortuary in Nairobi as having died from totally different circumstances and even locations.

Citizen TV has established that a young man who died in the protests in Kitengela ended up recorded as having died from an accident in Juja. This was not the only case of wrong details entered in the morgue registry.

Charles Owino, last seen in Kitengela according to his family and believed to have suffered a gunshot to the head with a visible entry point on his body, was recorded as having died from an accident.

Owino’s body was picked up in Kitengela during the Tuesday protests. A day later, when his family arrived at the city mortuary, they were met with records confirming that their son had arrived at the mortuary as an unidentified/unknown person from Juja.

Despite confirmation of Owino's identity, the family has dozens of unanswered questions. Authorities have informed them that they must submit a police OB report for the government to conduct a post-mortem exam to determine the cause of death.

Citizen TV has also discovered that two additional bodies, also victims of the protests, were inaccurately recorded. One was attributed to mob justice, while the other was labelled as a result of an accident in Juja.

These inaccuracies in the registry entries for three bodies suggest the possibility of deliberate actions.

The bodies are currently awaiting identification at the City Mortuary.