36-year-old w***n who went missing on Sunday found dead

The body of a 36-year-old Kakamega woman, who was last seen in the company of her lover on Sunday night, was on Tuesday morning (May 19) found dumped at the Kakamega County General Teaching and Referral Hospital morgue.

Elizabeth Keziah Mikite’s body had cut wounds in the back of her head and shoulders.

The deceased’s mother, Catherine Makungu, told K24 Digital that her daughter was last seen in public at 6:30pm on Sunday, May 17, in the company of her lover, an administration police officer, in Kakamega Town.

Later at 8:30pm on the same night, the suspect, a middle-aged police constable attached to Muranda post in Shinyalu Constituency, is said to have taken Elizabeth to Nabongo Dispensary.

Healthcare workers at the medical facility told K24 Digital that they received the patient while she was in critical condition.

“She was profusely bleeding from the back of her head and shoulders,” said a staff member at Nabongo Dispensary, who sought anonymity.

Elizabeth, a mother of three, is said to have succumbed to her injuries while receiving treatment at the facility, and her body was later moved to Kakamega County General Teaching and Referral Hospital morgue.

Elizabeth’s relatives told K24 Digital that their kin was in a violent relationship with the AP officer, who at one point “broke her arm”.

The deceased had separated from her husband, a mechanic in Kakamega Town, and, thereafter, got into a relationship with the suspect, Elizabeth’s mother, Catherine Makungu, said.

“The police officer had warned my daughter that he would kill her if she dared reunite with her estranged husband,” said Catherine.

The distressed mother said, of late, her daughter had been warming up to the idea of getting back with her husband, whom she separated with five years ago.

“My daughter’s husband knew the police officer whom she had fallen in love with after their separation. The husband and the said-cop would often quarrel every time the officer would confront my son-in-law at his garage in Kakamega Town, where he works as a mechanic,” said Catherine.

The deceased leaves behind three children – two daughters and a son. Her first child, a girl, is a 16-year-old Form Two student at a local secondary school; her second child is a son aged 13 and is in Class Six at a local primary school; and the last born is an 8-year-old girl, who is in Class Two. All the children were sired by the woman’s estranged husband, Elizabeth’s mother said.

Kakamega OCPD David Kabena told K24 Digital that police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of the mother-of-three, and that, so far, no suspect has been arrested.

“We are wondering why they (police) haven’t arrested the main suspect -- Elizabeth’s lover -- yet he was the last person she was seen with, and he was the person who took her to Nabongo Dispensary in critical condition,” said the deceased’s mother.

After separating from her husband, Elizabeth, a hairdresser by profession, is said to have rented a house near her parents’ home in Maraba Ward, where she lived with her three children.

“Occasionally, she would visit her lover, who stayed at the police houses in Muranda post,” said the deceased’s mother.

It remains unclear whether Elizabeth’s paramour had a wife or not.