A family is demanding justice for their kin who died as a result of injuries she reportedly received at the hands of her employer in Embakasi, Nairobi county.
Cynthia Nanjala died after being allegedly harassed and raped by her male supervisor in the home where she had been working as a nanny since March.
Yvonne Muruli, Nanjala’s sister, said the 20-year-old told her she was being tormented barely six days after starting employment. She suffered major injuries as a result of the mistreatment.
Muruli told Citizen TV that she received a call from a doctor at Kenyatta National Hospital telling her that Nanjala had been admitted to the hospital in a severe condition.
When she went to see her, the distraught woman told her that her sister’s body had terrible injuries.
She was found naked and rescued by a good samaritan in Lunga Lunga. Nanjala’s health began to deteriorate rapidly, and she eventually died.
Muruli claimed that before she died, her sister told her that she had been abused by her male supervisor.
“In her last words, she told me that she had been abused by her male boss. Her condition worsened and she died. Nanjala’s death is a big blow to our family,” said Muruli.
Muruli said their quest to get justice through the legal system was facing hurdles as the man was yet to record a statement.
She said it is the main suspect’s wife, who is a KDF, officer who recorded a statement dismissing the implication of her husband in Nanjala’s death.
In her statement, the officer claimed that the last time she and her husband saw Nanjala was when she said she was going to collect clothes from the hanging line but never went back to the house again.
Nanjala’s family is now waiting for the autopsy report to ascertain the cause of her death. They implored the police to hasten investigations to bring the perpetrator to book.
In other news, Malindi-based detectives launched investigations into an incident in which a woman was fatally attacked by her employer’s dog.
Thirty-nine-year old Roselyne Nafuna was carrying on with her routine at her employer’s Moriema home in Malindi when the South African Boerboel breed faced her.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), a guard responding to the woman’s distress calls managed to restrain the canine.
