The deceased has so far not been unidentified. According to Peninah Mwangi, head of the Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP), every month, Nairobi men assault more than 300 commercial sex workers monthly and murder more than 100 annually in the line of duty. “Many more cases certainly go unreported. Nairobi women should be worried because 300 assaults and 100 murders of sex workers by Nairobi men is nothing to joke about,” she says. Embakasi police station OCS Victor Nyongesa termed the incident as inhumane. He also said they have enough evidence from the used condom and fingerprints on the condom package to nab the suspect. The incident, filed under case OB NO:09/28/4/2014 is being investigated.
This murder in Pipeline follows a similar incident in Mbuthia Pub and Lodging, Huruma estate that occurred four days ago. A sex worker and her client consumed in the act broke their bed only to discover a naked body under them. The murdered prostitute was a mother of four. It is not the first time, these incidents are occurring. Between April and May 2010, eight prostitutes were murdered in Thika town. The killer, Philip Onyancha, was arrested 250 kilometres away in Kisii town, his eighth victim being 25-year-old Jackline Wambui.
n the same month, at Mbuthia Bar in Huruma, three prostitutes were killed. Anna Mueni’s body was found naked with a bed sheet twisted round her neck. Yet another body was discovered in a culvert near a German clinic between Huruma and Mathare. Osama, a bar tender at Imani bar, Mathare remembers the three deaths. “They all happened within one month. There were rumours that one man was involved unfortunately, the police never take such deaths seriously, it’s probably because no one follows up,” says Osama
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