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Kenya: Lucky Escape from Serial Killer

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Original Post Date: 2010-06-12 Time: 09:00:16  Posted By: News Poster

By Dominic Wabala

Nairobi – Two women have told of their lucky escape from self-confessed serial killer Philip Onyancha.

Ms Philis Okumu lived with her husband at the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company compound at Karen, Nairobi, while Ms Catherine Kosgey worked with Mr Onyancha for about a year.

Ms Okumu remembers the cold November day last year when Onyancha almost lured her into Ngong forest with her one-year-old baby boy.

The encounter remains engraved in the memory of Ms Okumu, a grocer at Karen shopping centre.

She had just settled at her vending point when Onyancha approached and informed her that her husband had been arrested and was being held at the Lenana chief’s camp.

“I had just arranged my wares at the shed when he ran up to me and asked if I knew him,” recalls Ms Okumu. “His face was familiar so I answered in the affirmative.

“He asked when my husband left the house and I told him. He informed me that he had been drinking some illicit brew with my husband at a slum within Satellite when they were busted by the chief and his askaris.

“He told me that my husband had sent him to me and insisted that I accompany him to the chief’s camp.”

Mr Onyancha offered to pay her fare to the Lenana High School matatu stage when she said she did not have the money. At first he insisted that she leave her baby with someone else, but when she insisted he reluctantly agreed.

On arrival at the Lenana school stage, the “killer” asked her if she had a mobile phone, and although she had one, she lied that she did not.

He then talked on his mobile phone and attempted to lure her into a shortcut through the forest, but she declined and said she would rather use the longer route because her baby would feel cold in the forest.

“He tried to lure me into the forest path on our way to a village on the other side but my instincts told me not to and I insisted on using the Lenana School route. He kept using his phone, but all I could hear were monosyllables.

“When we got to the other side of the forest, he said the chief and his askaris had used the forest route, so we had to hurry and go back.”

The woman, with her baby still strapped on her back, resisted his second attempt to lure her onto the “shorter route” through the forest despite his pleas.

“I became suspicious when he insisted that we use the forest route on our way back, even when there were people training dogs in the forest at the time. He even offered to carry the baby for me, but I declined and insisted on using the same route back.

“He opted to walk through the forest, while I used the same route we had used. When we met on the other side of the road, he just stared at me with a blank face and ran away. I waited at the matatu stage for three hours, believing that the chief and his group would come with my husband,” Ms Okumu narrates.

She later found out that her husband had not been with Mr Onyancha, nor had he been arrested.

The next time she saw him was when police frog-marched him to the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company offices in Karen, where she lived.

“When he was brought to Karen, I remembered his face. He is the same man who came to me and lured me to the forest near Lenana.”

Ms Kosgey, a Nairobi water company security assistant, was shocked on learning that the “killer” had been her workmate at Karen.

When Mr Onyancha was brought by police to Karen to show the body of one of his victims, Ms Kosgey confronted him and asked if the story about him was true.

“When he was brought in by the officers, I asked him if what the police were saying was true, and he replied in the affirmative,” recalls Ms Kosgey. “I asked him also why he did it and he told me I could not understand.

“He told me that he had spared me because of my children. I am shocked beyond explanation. I worked with him for about a year and he never looked suspicious. I guess God did not want me dead,” she says.

She remembers one night as she sat alone with Mr Onyancha in a room in the Karen building when her children appeared. She believes he would have killed her that night had her children not suddenly shown up.

For one year, she worked with Mr Onyancha supervising the two G4S guards posted to the water company’s offices.

He asked Ms Kosgey to recommend to G4S to place him on night shift, arguing that he was attending classes. However, according to Ms Kosgey, he would arrive for work as early as 4.30pm instead of 6.30pm, which raised suspicion.

Original Source: The Nation (Nairobi)
Original date published: 11 June 2010

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201006111064.html?viewall=1