DCI homicide team take over Rita Waeni case, to do forensic analysis on head recovered in Kiambaa

A post-mortem exercise that was to take place on Tuesday at Nairobi’s City Mortuary on a human head suspected to be that of the late Rita Waeni was stopped.

The head was recovered in Kiambaa Dam in Kiambu County on Sunday and the case has been under in hands of Kasarani DCIO since Waeni’s mutilated body was discovered in the garbage bin of a residential apartment in Roysambu, Nairobi, on January 14.

On Tuesday however, the post-mortem was put on hold as the homicide team of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) took over the matter to do a forensic analysis of the recovered head.

Two Nigerian nationals arrested in connection with Waeni’s murder were on Monday arraigned before after being arrested in a rented flat in Ndenderu, Kiambu County.

Kasarani DCI officers recovered a hatchet and a butcher's knife, six mobile phones, an assortment of SIM cards, three laptop computers and a Kenyan identity card during the duo’s arrest.

Police said investigations revealed that the two had been in Kenya illegally.

The family of the 20-year-old Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) student has since revealed that at 5 am on the Sunday Waeni’s body parts were found, her father received a message delivered from her phone number, demanding a Ksh. 500,000 ransom within 24 hours for the release of her daughter.