This archive report was first published on 25 October 2019.
On October 25, 2019, a shocking discovery was made in a South B house, where a University of Nairobi lecturer, Hannah Kahungani Inyama, had been keeping her 13-year-old son's decomposing body at home.
According to reports, Inyama, a lecturer at the faculty of School of Nursing, did not report her son's death nor take him to the hospital after he stopped breathing on Saturday at 8:30 am.
She told detectives that her son 'stopped breathing' on Saturday at 8:30 am, but instead of seeking medical attention, she kept his body at home, hoping he would resurrect.
The apartment caretaker, Stephen Mwangi, discovered the decomposing body after noticing a foul odor emanating from the house on the sixth floor on Wednesday evening.
Mwangi told detectives that he had not seen either of them for about four days and that he saw a body wrapped in a blanket lying in the sitting room through the window.
He added that he had not seen the boy for the last seven months and that the tenant had a house help who left late last year, leaving Inyama to care for her son alone.
Some relatives told police that Inyama had lately shown signs of depression and withdrawal, and that she used to be a very jovial and talkative woman but changed in the last two months and would hardly talk to people.
