This archive report was first published on 18 August 2021.
Kiambu Cult Killing: Farmhand Skinned Alive ¶
On August 18, 2021, a gruesome murder shook the quiet village of Gatuanyaga in Kiambu, Kenya. Margret Nyambura, a 27-year-old widow, lost her husband Simon Githae, 36, a farmhand, in a brutal and inhuman manner.
According to eyewitnesses, Githae's killers amputated specific body organs with 'surgical precision', leaving behind a trail of horror and despair.
'These were not normal killers. They were harvesters of humans. They killed my husband in a very inhuman way,' said Ms Nyambura, who has a four-year-old child and an infant.
Ms Nyambura's husband had just started building his life after returning from the United Arab Emirates, where he had worked as a casual worker. He later worked as a casual labourer on flower farms in Thika before being hired as a farmhand by his neighbour.
On the fateful day, Githae left home at 7am, returned at noon, and then went to a nearby pub to enjoy a bottle of beer with friends. He never made it back home, and the family believes the killers took advantage of his inebriation and kidnapped him before drugging, killing, and skinning him.
Police investigations revealed that Githae was first suffocated and then hit with a blunt object in the back of his head. His body was found dumped on a roadside in Gatuanyaga, near uncultivated bushy land owned by Thika-based fruit processor Del Monte Kenya.
Thika East OCPD Kutima Namutali told the Nation that they were still investigating the matter but no arrests had been made. The police believe more than two people were involved in the killing.
Other killings had been reported in the area recently, including a man found brutally murdered in the Del Monte land last year and a Standard Three pupil killed in April this year.
