This archive report was first published on 25 October 2019.
On October 25, 2019, Nairobi police commander Philip Ndolo announced that investigations had been launched to establish the cause of the mysterious death of Emmanuel Solomon Inyama, a 13-year-old son of UON lecturer Hannah Inyama.
According to police, Hannah still maintains that the boy was not dead but under demonic attack. Detectives from the Makadara Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said Hannah would be subjected to a mental check-up after her statement and explanation were found to be incoherent.
When detectives were called to South B at the Kifaru Front Apartments, they found Hannah in the house saying her son would resurrect. A neighbour, Selline, said Khahugani has been inviting people from her church to the house.
The caretaker, Stephen Mwangi, said he discovered the body when he peeped through the window after Hannah had refused to pick his calls. He said, “I knocked the door but nobody opened. I decided to call and I could hear the phone ringing but no one answered it. I then decided to peep through the window which was not locked and I saw the body wrapped in a brown blanket with yellow stripes,”
Hannah told detectives that her son “stopped breathing” on Saturday at 8.30 am. The lecturer admitted that she could smell the foul stench in the house from her decomposing son but was “fighting a spiritual war”.
