Machakos, 17 October, 2019 / 4:20 am (ACI Africa).
A Kenyan Catholic priest who had been reported missing since mid-last week has been found dead and buried and his “disfigured” body, which was in a sack has been exhumed, sources have told ACI Africa Wednesday, October 16.
The late Fr. Michael Kyengo, a diocesan priest of Machakos diocese in Kenya, had left his ancestral home in Tala, Machakos County, Tuesday (October 8) where he was on leave and had told his “family members he will be away on Wednesday so from Thursday they could not find him on phone,” Fr. Francis Maundu, the financial administrator of Machakos diocese has told ACI Africa.
“I went this morning to the ground with priests from Machakos diocese and other priests from Embu diocese to meet the policemen who were already there on the ground with a suspect,” Fr. Francis Maundu narrated to ACI Africa the events of Wednesday morning, October 16 in Embu, some 120 kilometres northeast of Nairobi towards Mount Kenya.
“The CID (Directorate of Criminal Investigations) exhumed the body for us to identify,” Fr. Maundu said and added, “What was surprising, the body was in a sack, it was so disfigured even his head that we could not identify him.”
According to Fr. Maundu, Fr. Kyengo’s family members had reported to Tala police station in Machakos county about their inability to trace their kin, 43-year-old priest, Fr. Michael Kyengo.
