On Wednesday October 31, 2018, a sad story emerged on social media narrating how a house help was forced by her boss to sleep with a corpse at a gunpoint.
Paul Odhiambo Mcochieng sadly narrated the story of a girl from Kisumu who was once victimised by her bosses in Nairobi.
According to Odhiambo, Peninah Awuor from Nyahera, Kisumu County was a house-help in Pangani for only 47 days.
Apart from being sexually assaulted, she was forced by her employer Mohammed Noor to wash and sometimes sleep with a corpse wrapped with a mat and hidden under a bed in one of the rooms.
The first time Mr. Noor forced her to do it at gunpoint.
She was shocked when she realized that each day the corpse would produce several new Ksh1,000 and Ksh500 notes which Mr. Noor would collect in a basin.
Noor’s wife once beat up Peninah when she screamed at night after Mr. Noor started grabbing her inappropriately in the living room while she and her two children were asleep upstairs.
She also warned Peninah to never steal the money collected daily from the corpse while cleaning it or she will suffer untold consequences.
According to Peninah, a doctor would also come to the house every Friday to inject the corpse with some substance so that it does not smell.
Peninah who was kicked out of the home without a penny reported the matter to Pangani Police Station where police officers appeared to despise her story ostensibly on being bribed by Mr. Noor. She only got help after she reported the matter to Parklands Police station.
In her 47 days of employment which she was not paid, she washed the corpse 40 times and has vowed to never work as a houshelp again.
Her father married three wives. The first one didn’t give birth,The second one is her mum gave birth to five children 4boys and agirl which is her of which two died they are left three alive.
The third one is a Tanzanian gave birth to five children one boy four girls but the boy died. So this girl is an orphan her dad and mum later died.
However, Daily Active Kenya has not yet established whether Odhiambo, who is a citizen journalism practitioner is telling the truth.
Do you think the claims he is making are true, or have you ever come across such an incident?