This archive report was first published on 10 September 2019.
On September 10, 2019, a tragic incident unfolded in Kenya, leaving a family in shock and grief. The body of Geoffrey Wekesa, a 42-year-old Kenyan man who died in a road crash in Malawi, arrived in the country without his head.
Wekesa, a long-distance truck driver, had been working for a Mombasa-based plastic tank manufacturing company. He was tasked with transporting products to far-flung countries in Africa.
According to his wife, Susan Nasimiyu, Wekesa's employer footed the cost of ferrying his body via road from Malawi to Kenya. However, the family discovered his head was missing after the corpse arrived in Tongaren, Bungoma County.
"We were shocked on Monday to receive my son's headless body," Wekesa's father, Yusuf Khaemba, told K24 Digital.
The family has appealed to the government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help them trace the head of their kin in the South-east African nation.
The headless remains of Wekesa were taken to Kiminini Hospital Mortuary.
