The father of the late singer Edward Irungu Njaro has refused to bury his body after accusing police officers of bungling the investigations.
In an interview with Nation on Friday, July 30, the father, Njaro Wairatu, explained that he had refused to bury the body until he finds the truth on what he believes to be a murder cover-up.
He claimed that investigators had abandoned the cases and he is yet to be summoned by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to record a statement regarding the death.
"Investigators have taken advantage of my poverty to treat my assertions as creations of a mad man. I will, in turn not bury him. Let his killers bury him. I won't use my land to cover the truth.
"(Burying him is) tantamount to burying the raw truth that my son was murdered," stated the father.
Mr Wairatu has publicly refused to accept a police report that chalked his son's death to suicide noting that the singer had contacted him and told him that he had been captured before his phone went silent.
He noted that on July 13, the singer had visited him and confided that a cartel was demanding money from him.
The next day, he called his father explaining that he had been captured by the gang after opting not to report the matter to the police.
A different version of the story, however, indicates that Irungu drove himself to Masinga Dam and texted his friends about his intention to commit suicide.
A phone found in his car showed that he owed the cartel a total of Ksh 750,000.
Previously, Wairatu confirmed that he received a call from a hidden number and the person on the end of the line offered him money in exchange for his silence.
The singer went missing and his body was later found floating in the Masinga Hydroelectric Power Station’s dam on the boundary between Embu and Machakos counties.
