{"id":3839,"date":"2020-03-07T15:17:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2020-03-07T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T15:17:03","slug":"keneis-burial-underway-in-nakuru-as-family-leaders-call-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/keneis-burial-underway-in-nakuru-as-family-leaders-call-for-justice","title":{"rendered":"Kenei\u2019s burial underway in Nakuru as family, leaders call for justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mourners have already gathered at\u00a0Chemasis village in Rongai, Nakuru county, to say goodbye to Sergeant Kipyegon Kenei, an AP officer who was murdered two weeks ago in Sh39 billion military equipment scandal.<\/p>\n

Family members and political leaders of the slain officer, who worked at Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s Harambee Annex office are, however calling for justice for the departed cop.Speaking at Umash Funeral Home in Nakuru on Saturday morning, Kenei\u2019s father John Chesang eulogised his son as hardworking young man who did not deserve to die.<\/p>\n

He lauded the ongoing investigations into the killing led by Directorate of Criminal InvestigationS (DCI) boss George Kinoti, but challenged the investigators to arrest those behind the killing.\u201cWe are happy with the investigations, but we feel his cellphone details could be very important in unraveling those behind his killing,\u201d said Chesang.Labour Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui described Kenei as an organised young man who brought everyone on board and was known among his peers as\u00a0Kiongozi<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The remains of Sergeant Kipyegon Kenei leaves Umash Funeral Home in Nakuru for burial on Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He called on DCI to stop the drama and instead tell the family who Kenei was talking to on phone as was captured in the CCTV footage released on Thursday by DCI.He dismissed reports that Kenei committed suicide, saying he was not a coward and could not kill himself.”Kenei could not commit suicide. He was not a coward to take his life.<\/p>\n

Let the DCI stop all the drama and tell us those murdered him,\u201d he said.Kinoti said Kenei was murdered, and his body secretly taken to his\u00a0Imara Daima’s house, where it was later\u00a0found, with a pistol next to it, in a\u00a0stage-managed suicide scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have evidence to show that he did not shoot himself,\u201d Kinoti told the media, \u201cthis is case of cold murder. They killed him and tampered with the scene.\u201dWhile the DCI is yet to name or arrest any suspects even after releasing the CCTV footage from Harambee House Anex, Kinoti maintained that Kenei’s killing\u00a0is linked to the fake military equipment’s scandal.<\/p>\n

According to CCTV footage released by Kinoti, Kenei is the one who ushered in former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa, two foreigners and a fake army general to Ruto\u2019s office, to cut the military equipment deal.Kenei’s body was transferred from Umash Funeral Home to their rural village in Rongai for burial this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mourners have already gathered at\u00a0Chemasis village in Rongai, Nakuru county, to say goodbye to Sergeant Kipyegon Kenei, an AP officer who was murdered two weeks ago in Sh39 billion military equipment scandal. Family members and political leaders of the slain officer, who worked at Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s Harambee Annex office are, however calling for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8],"tags":[2087,2086,1635,2088],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-chemasis-village","tag-harambee-annex-office","tag-kipyegon-kenei","tag-sh39-billion-military-equipment-scandal"],"yoast_head":"\nKenei\u2019s burial underway in Nakuru as family, leaders call for justice - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mourners have already gathered at\u00a0Chemasis village in Rongai, Nakuru county, to say goodbye to Sergeant Kipyegon Kenei, an AP officer\" \/>\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\/community\/keneis-burial-underway-in-nakuru-as-family-leaders-call-for-justice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kenei\u2019s burial underway in Nakuru as family, leaders call for justice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mourners have already gathered at\u00a0Chemasis village in Rongai, Nakuru county, to say goodbye to Sergeant Kipyegon Kenei, an AP officer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/keneis-burial-underway-in-nakuru-as-family-leaders-call-for-justice\" \/>\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=\"2020-03-07T15:17:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/onybulcbkxwn5e634bc8296a1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/keneis-burial-underway-in-nakuru-as-family-leaders-call-for-justice#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/keneis-burial-underway-in-nakuru-as-family-leaders-call-for-justice\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kenei\u2019s burial underway in Nakuru as family, leaders call for justice\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-07T15:17:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/keneis-burial-underway-in-nakuru-as-family-leaders-call-for-justice\"},\"wordCount\":428,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/keneis-burial-underway-in-nakuru-as-family-leaders-call-for-justice#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/onybulcbkxwn5e634bc8296a1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Chemasis village\",\"Harambee Annex office\",\"Kipyegon Kenei\",\"Sh39 billion military equipment scandal\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/keneis-burial-underway-in-nakuru-as-family-leaders-call-for-justice#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/keneis-burial-underway-in-nakuru-as-family-leaders-call-for-justice\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/keneis-burial-underway-in-nakuru-as-family-leaders-call-for-justice\",\"name\":\"Kenei\u2019s burial underway in Nakuru as family, leaders call for justice - 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