This archive report was first published on 11 September 2019.
On September 11, 2019, a Kenyan family received a devastating shock when the body of their 42-year-old kin, Geoffrey Wekesa, arrived in Kenya without his head.
Wekesa, a long-distance truck driver, had died in a road accident in Malawi over a week ago.
His employer had footed the cost of ferrying his body back to Kenya via road, but the family was left stunned when they discovered his head was missing upon arrival 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 Malawi.
Wekesa's wife, Susan Nasimiyu, revealed that her late husband worked for a Mombasa-based plastic tank manufacturing company and was tasked with transporting products to far-flung countries in Africa.
The headless remains of Wekesa were taken to Kiminini Hospital Mortuary.
