{"id":28922,"date":"2021-06-03T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=28922"},"modified":"2021-06-03T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T16:26:40","slug":"kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave","title":{"rendered":"Kitengela Friends: Victim’s Body Stolen From Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The body of Elijah Obuong, one of the Kitengela Four victims was exhumed and stolen from his grave on Wednesday night, June 2.<\/p>\n

Kisumu County Police Commander Samuel Anampiu confirmed the incident stating that a group of seven people dug the grave, retrieved his body and buried an empty coffin.<\/p>\n

They filled the grave with soil and fled away with his body in a hearse.<\/p>\n

Obuong was buried at his aunt’s place on May 13, after being found tortured and murdered in a case currently under investigation.<\/p>\n

Police boss Anampiu suspected that a family member who allegedly opposed the burial of Obong at his aunt’s place was behind the exhumation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are tracking down a close family member, whom we believe organised the illegal exhumation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur officers from Koru Police station are dealing with this matter that is still under investigation,” Anampiu tentatively stated.<\/p>\n

Other reports alleged that the victim’s mother led the exhumation party and wrapped the body in a polythene bag before speeding away.<\/p>\n

An autopsy conducted at the Murang’a County Referral Hospital morgue detailed that Obuong died of strangulation. The other three friends who disappeared were Jack Ochieng, Benjamin Imbai and Brian Odour.<\/p>\n

Imbai’s body was later found at General Kago Funeral Home in Thika. Jack Ochieng’s family disowned a third body which was believed to be his. Police are still searching for Ochieng and Oduor\u2019s bodies.<\/p>\n

The four had been accused of being members of a criminal gang that worked together with rogue police officers.<\/p>\n

Prior to Obuong’s body being exhumed, his mother admitted that he was engaged with individuals of questionable character and that the family was surprised to find out that head ties with alleged criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Kenya. The body of Elijah Obuong, one of the Kitengela Four victims was exhumed and stolen from his grave on Wednesday night, June 2. Kisumu County Police Commander Samuel Anampiu confirmed the incident stating that a group of seven people dug the grave, retrieved his body and buried an empty coffin. They filled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":28921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-28922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"\nKitengela Friends: Victim's Body Stolen From Grave - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The body of Elijah Obuong, one of the Kitengela Four victims was exhumed and stolen from his grave on Wednesday night, J ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kitengela Friends: Victim's Body Stolen From Grave\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The body of Elijah Obuong, one of the Kitengela Four victims was exhumed and stolen from his grave on Wednesday night, J ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-03T17:02:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60b902a33cb06.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kitengela Friends: Victim’s Body Stolen From Grave\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-03T17:02:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave\"},\"wordCount\":299,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60b902a33cb06.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave\",\"name\":\"Kitengela Friends: Victim's Body Stolen From Grave - kenya\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60b902a33cb06.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-03T17:02:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The body of Elijah Obuong, one of the Kitengela Four victims was exhumed and stolen from his grave on Wednesday night, J ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60b902a33cb06.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60b902a33cb06.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":360,\"caption\":\"Kitengela Friends: Victim's Body Stolen From Grave\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Kitengela Friends: Victim’s Body Stolen From Grave\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\",\"name\":\"kenya\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kitengela Friends: Victim's Body Stolen From Grave - kenya","description":"The body of Elijah Obuong, one of the Kitengela Four victims was exhumed and stolen from his grave on Wednesday night, J ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kitengela Friends: Victim's Body Stolen From Grave","og_description":"The body of Elijah Obuong, one of the Kitengela Four victims was exhumed and stolen from his grave on Wednesday night, J ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave","og_site_name":"kenya","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-06-03T17:02:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":360,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60b902a33cb06.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Kitengela Friends: Victim’s Body Stolen From Grave","datePublished":"2021-06-03T17:02:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave"},"wordCount":299,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60b902a33cb06.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Kenya","Kenya"],"articleSection":["all news","community","homepage-english","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave","name":"Kitengela Friends: Victim's Body Stolen From Grave - kenya","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60b902a33cb06.jpg","datePublished":"2021-06-03T17:02:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The body of Elijah Obuong, one of the Kitengela Four victims was exhumed and stolen from his grave on Wednesday night, J ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60b902a33cb06.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/06\/img-60b902a33cb06.jpg","width":720,"height":360,"caption":"Kitengela Friends: Victim's Body Stolen From Grave"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kitengela-friends-victims-body-stolen-from-grave#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Kitengela Friends: Victim’s Body Stolen From Grave"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/","name":"kenya","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}