This archive report was first published on 3 December 2019.
On November 27, John Kakas Sungura, alias Elias Nolel Kaskas, sold herbal medicine to four people at Southern Comfort Hotel in Buruburu shopping centre, Nairobi.
One of the clients, Harrison Maina Kamau, was pronounced dead on arrival at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital after consuming the concoction, while the other three were hospitalized.
According to Corporal Ali Ibrahim of Buruburu DCI offices, a postmortem on Kamau's body showed he died of suspected chemical poisoning.
Kaskas is suspected to have prepared the lethal substance, but he claimed he only received it from someone else and sought treatment for diarrhea after tasting the substance before selling it to his clients.
On December 3, 2019, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) sought orders to detain Kaskas for 14 days to assist with the investigations, but he was instead detained for five days pending further investigations.
