Exhumation of the suspected Body of former KVDA managing director Eng. Silvenus Tubei discovered 12 years later is ongoing after the remains were discovered buried in a shallow grave a few meters away from his palatial home.
The remains which were covered in a blanket were discovered buried in a shallow grave a few meters away from his palatial home along a flower bed.
The exhumation exercise is currently being undertaken by homicide detectives from the Directorate of Criminal investigations DCI.
Tubei went missing from his home in Kabiemit village, Chepkurmum, Tumeiyo location in Keiyo south subcounty, in the morning of September 26, 2012.
Remains discovered buried in a shallow grave a few metres away from his palatial home
A gardener stumbled on a blanket buried while trying to dig out of the ground and discovered a complete adult human skeleton.
According to Keiyo south OCPD Abdullahi Dahir Investigators would be looking for DNA to confirm if it matches that of Tubei and establish the circumstances under which he lost his life.
Detectives are now tasked with figuring out how a man who was reported missing, even by family members, ended up buried in his farm and wrapped in a blanket.
Had it not been for children who were sent out to collect firewood, the body might not have been discovered.
They went ahead, pulled the buried blanket, and were struck by an odour. They then saw a human skull and alerted a gardener on the property.
A family member said that two of Mr Tubei’s children with his deceased first wife had since moved abroad.
The second wife and her child disappeared, never to be heard from again after she was acquitted by the courts.
Tubei oversaw the construction of the multibillion-dollar Turkwel Dam, in which KVDA was the implementing agent, and the construction of the corporation’s KVDA 14-storey towering headquarters in Eldoret.
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