Touch CEO Susan Njoki Kamengere died from manual strangulation, autopsy results show
The pathologists also confirmed that Njoki, who was aged 48, died at least four hours after her last meal as they found food in her stomach
Toto Touch Kenya Chief Executive Officer Susan Njoki Kamengere died through manual strangulation.
This was revealed yesterday after an autopsy was conducted on the late CEO’s body, led by six pathologists led by government pathologist Joseph Ndung’u, at the Montezuma Monalisa Funeral Home in Nairobi.
Ndung’u said there were compressions on Njoki’s neck, indicating she was strangled to death, pointing out that there were signs of oxygen deficiency in the blood of the Toto Touch CEO.
“There are features of compression to the neck, and those features are in keeping with manual strangulation. There are also features of lack of oxygen in the blood as a result of neck compression,” the government pathologist revealed during an address to the press after the process.
The findings of the autopsy on Njoki were agreed on by a team of six pathologists.
The pathologists also confirmed that Njoki, who was aged 48, died at least four hours after her last meal as they found food in her stomach.
“She died shortly after her last meal; we found food in her stomach. Death likely occurred around four hours after,” Ndung’u added.
Njoki passed away on July 15 after she was forcibly taken from her home by admitted to Chiromo Hospital.
According to a now-deleted Facebook post, Susan wrote on the evening of her admission, she was forcefully injected by a team of four; two men and two women, who stormed into her home claiming to act on her psychiatrist’s and husband’s instructions.
“Now, a group of nurses invaded my bedroom and forced an injection on me. They said they were sent by my doctor,” Susan wrote.
In a chilling audio recorded from the hospital, Susan described being held against her will and denied access to her phone.
“They forced me to lie down and injected me again. I told them I was allergic to some medication. If death looks like this, let them take me back home,” she said.
By the next day, she was dead.
The family of Susan is struggling to come to terms with the circumstances that led to her death.
Even more troubling is the fact that Susan’s immediate family was barred from seeing her while she was admitted. According to her youngest sister, Priscila Wanjiru, she had spoken to Susan on the phone the morning before her death.
When she went to visit her at the hospital later that morning, she was denied entry unless the husband gave permission.
“I went again in the afternoon with our aunt. Still, we were told we couldn’t see her unless her husband allowed. By the time we were let in, she was already dead,” Wanjiru explained.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives have launched investigations into Njoki’s death, with her husband, Alloise Ngure, being considered a person of interest.
The suspect was arrested by DCI detectives and later released on cash bail on Friday last week.
The late 48-year-old medic’s family lawyer, Ndegwa Njiru, has confirmed that the postmortem results have triggered formal homicide investigations.
