Nkaissery home cordoned off as police probe death

Security personnel at the late Joseph Nkaissery’s home in Karen. PHOTO | FILE | NMG 

By GEORGE OMONDI

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Summary

• By the time we went to press, investigations that started early Saturday had not produced any official communication on the cause of Major General (Rtd) Nkaissery’s death.
• The media was also groping in the dark over burial arrangements as a group of Maasai elders held a meeting at the minister’s Il Bisil home in Kajiado County.

The Karen home of late Interior secretary Joseph Nkaissery remained out of bounds to the public and the media as investigations into his sudden death entered the second day yesterday.

Detectives have cordoned off the home. 

By the time we went to press, investigations that started early Saturday had not produced any official communication on the cause of Major General (Rtd) Nkaissery’s death.

The media was also groping in the dark over burial arrangements as a group of Maasai elders held a meeting at the minister’s Il Bisil home in Kajiado County.

Nkaissery collapsed at home on Saturday morning and was pronounced dead at the Karen Hospital. 

Mrs Hellen Nkaissery was admitted to hospital suffering from shock after her husband’s death.

READ: Interior secretary Nkaissery dies suddenly

Curfew imposed

Meanwhile, Education secretary Fred Matiang’i, who is holding the interior docket in an acting capacity, moved swiftly to declare parts of Lamu, Tana River and Garissa as “disturbed and dangerous areas” in the country.

He imposed a 90-day dusk to dawn curfew in selected areas of the three counties after recent terrorist attacks by Al-Shabaab militia.

On Saturday, suspected militants killed nine residents of Pandanguo in Lamu, raising concerns after recent attacks in the area.

The affected areas include Hola, Ijara, Garsen, Kiunga, Kipini, Holugho Border Point, Galmagala and Sangailu. 

Other affected areas are the border point between Ishakani and Dar-es-Salaam, Masalani, Bodehei, Milimani, Baure, Basuba, Mangai, Maralani,

“Every person who resides within these sub counties, except under and in accordance with the terms and conditions of a written permit by the respective Deputy County Commissioner of the affected areas remain indoors...” states the order published by Dr Matiang’i.

The curfew, which took effect on Saturday, starts at 6.30 pm and ends at 6.30am every day.