The burial of Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale’s fighter bull caretaker and trainer Kizito Moi Amukune is now set to take place on Monday after a post-mortem exercise revealed that he died of injuries resulting from an attack by the animal.
Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor who conducted the autopsy allayed fears surrounding Kizito’s death, confirming Khalwale’s version of events.
Addressing the media on Saturday, Dr. Oduor ruled out murder allegations which had been circulating on social media following the incident last week.
“The late Kizito had injuries on the side of the forehead, on the interior neck and on the inner thigh of the left leg. The injuries were penetrative and had features including some bruising around them…they look like injuries caused by something penetrative but which was blunt, and is in keeping with a horn of an animal,” he explained.
“We can conclude that indeed the initial autopsy was correct and it was caused by an animal rather than what was alleged that it was a knife or something like that.”
Senator Khalwale as well as the deceased’s family confirmed the autopsy results, lamenting over unnecessary time wasted since the incident thereby delaying the burial.
“I am glad that Dr. Oduor has now announced a closure. With this, as I pass my condolences to the family, my community and the bullfighting fraternity, we will move the remains of Moi tomorrow in the usual manner and we will bury him on Monday at Malinya,” Khalwale said.
The revelation comes as a sigh of relief for the family which said they had been subjected to untold agony.
“I thank the government for giving us direction so that now we can bury our kin. I’m appealing to the government to help us with the expenses since we have spent a lot of time and money and the burial programme is long overdue,” a brother to the deceased said.
The 47-year-old Kizito was reportedly gored and killed by Khalwale’s decorated fighter bull renowned across Western Kenya as ‘Inasio’ at his residence in Shikhuyu village, Kakamega County.
According to Khalwale, the body was found in the cowshed by another employee while he went around doing his duties.
Speaking after the incident, the Senator said the deceased staff had been the caretaker of all his fighter bulls over the last 20 years.
In keeping with Luhya traditions, Khalwale then speared and slaughtered the killer bull.
Following the death of the caretaker, a popular Kakamega businessman refuted the former Ikolomani MP’s version of events prompting the lawmaker to postpone the burial of Moi to allow a probe into the incident.
“Following wild, baseless, and false claims by some pseudo politicians in Kakamega, I’ve today been forced to indefinitely postpone the burial of my trusted fighter bull caretaker,” he wrote on X early this week.
“Meanwhile, today, I hosted a team of DCI detectives at my Malinya Home for a thorough fact-finding mission over the unfortunate demise of the late Kizito Moi Amukune.”
