Controversy delays burial of Khalwale’s bull caretaker
Kizito Amukune Moi, the man who was allegedly killed on Sunday by Kakamega senator Bonny Khalwale’s fighter bull will not be buried today (Thursday) as earlier planned.
This follows fresh controversy over the cause of his death as homicide detectives move in to carry out more investigations. The family had planned to collect the body of the late Kizito from the mortuary on Wednesday but were advised against doing so.
“I went to the mortuary at 5.30 am to prepare the body of my brother before the rest of the family members arrived. But at around 9.00 am, I received a phone call from home informing me that police officers had come to stop the burial arrangements. I rushed back home and met the officers who claimed that they had instructions to stop the burial due to new developments,” said Fredrick Muhanji, the deceased’s elder brother.
The family was reportedly stopped from picking up the body by police who asked for more time to conclude their investigations. Kakamega South Sub-county police commander Benjamin Wambua said police had received complaints from some members of the public that were worth investigating.
He said the family is however disturbed that the police did not reveal the identity of the person who launched the complaints.
“Even though we complied with their orders, we are still asking to know who could have gone to the police with fresh demands over the body of my son,” said Maurice Odanga Amukune, the deceased’s father.
Muhanji said all his family members had accepted the autopsy report and did not have any issues regarding the death of their kin.
“We were forced to slow down the process for further analysis after allegations of murder started coming up. We have now invited officers from the Homicide [Department] to conduct a second postmortem to clear any doubt about this death,” said Wambua.
The detectives had earlier attended a postmortem process that was conducted at the Kakamega County General Hospital mortuary by Western region pathologist, Dickson Muchana on Monday, a day after Amukune’s body was found in the bull’s shed in Dr Khalwale’s home.
Muhanji who had also witnessed the autopsy process said the family have no doubt that their kin died from injuries caused by the bull.
The report revealed that Amukune succumbed to excessive bleeding occasioned by stab wounds from the horn of an animal.
The report further explained that the deceased suffered three broken ribs from a major blow and curved stabs on the neck, head and left thigh.
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His father said all burial arrangements had been set and the the entire Mungusi village was in an upbeat mood to lay their son to his final resting place.
“We had prepared enough food for the burial ceremony and invited fighting bulls to grace the ceremony. Relatives have come from far prepared to spend a day here and get back to their workstations. The postponement will disrupt a lot of people’s programmes,” he rued.
Kizito was the caretaker of Dr Khalwale’s fighter bulls. He was allegedly gored to death by a bull he had cared for in the last four years. He was 46, the second-born in a family of three. He was not married.
Khalwale said tradition dictates that caretakers and trainers of bulls that participate in bullfighting must be bachelors.
“Amukune was a decent man who would have liked to work anywhere, but he chose to work in a fighting game. We shall honour the new orders from the police and wait until they tell us they have exhausted their investigations so that no doubt is cast,” he said.
He condemned politicians in Kakamega who had politicised the death of his herdsman and disrupted his burial.
“All the process to define the cause of his death is complete. What is playing, is politics. But I will not fall a victim of their scheme and the slander on social media. These people seem not to have any feelings for the affected families or the deceased,” he noted.
The killer bull was slaughtered by irate villagers in accordance with the Isukha tradition who shared its meat randomly. Khalwale drove the first spear through the neck of Inasio, his favourite bull which had won several fights.
Khalwale cursed the animal saying it had wronged and let him down.
“Inasio, you have turned against me, you have wronged and ashamed me by turning against your trainer and caretaker,” he shouted at the bull before driving three spears to its neck. Thereafter villagers descended on the massive bull chopping off its body parts even before it died.
Khalwale has purchased another bull to be slaughtered on the burial day of Amukune to honour his services.
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