Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital medical intern Vincent Bosire Nyambunde (left) and Angel Moraa. Their bodies were found at an apartment in Nyamataro, Kisii County.
The family of Angela Moraa Ongeri, the woman who was found dead alongside her lover, Vincent Bosire Nyambunde, a doctor at the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital (KTRH), has said that their daughter was beaten to death.
During her emotional send-off on Friday, at Moitunya-Omogonchoro village, Kitutu Masaba Constituency, in Nyamira County, the family said a post mortem conducted on Angela’s body established that she died of excessive bleeding, which caused clotting in her brain.
The grief stricken relatives said pathologists found out that Angela’s skull had been fractured. They also said that her body bore bruises all over.
“I have been called here to just say a word. Angela was beaten. In her post mortem, we found out that she had been beaten, injured and her skull was fractured. Blood filled her brain. From her knees upwards, she was severely beaten,” Angela’s kin who only identified himself as Edward said.
Mourners view the remains of medical intern Vincent Bosire Nyambunde during the burial ceremony at Kenyerere village on December 13, 2024.
As Angela’s burial was underway at her mother’s home, a few kilometres away in the same constituency, Vincent was being buried at Kenyerere village in Rigoma ward.
Vincent’s family remained tightlipped on the postmortem report and chose to absolve him from speculations of any wrongdoing.
Vincent’s older brother, who is a priest gave a detailed account of his last moments as hundreds of mourners who thronged their home to pay their last respects listened keenly.
In a moving tribute, Fr Thomas Nyambunde said he was so close to his doctor brother unlike their other siblings.
The man of the cloth said that if he would have been given an opportunity to describe who his late brother was in one word, he would say that he was a saint.
“Vincent was so close to me. In comparison with my other brothers and sisters, he feared me most and also respected me in equal measure. Many of the things he had, he used to tell me,” Fr Thomas told a multitude that came to condole with them.
“Vincent intermingled with everyone. You know him. He was a humble man, harmless, ready to listen, merciful and dedicated. He had me as his confidant and he revealed many of his secrets to me,” Fr Thomas said.
He recounted that before the two were found dead in their rented apartment at the Nyamataro area of Kisii Town on November 29, 2024, he had talked to him on November 15, 2024.
Father Thomas said Vincent and Angela met in 2013, when they were Form four candidates at Nyambaria High School and St Theresa’s Gekano Girls respectively.
However, Angela’s eulogy did not indicate that she studied at St Theresa’s. It said she did her KCSE in different schools but it noted that she was baptized at Gekano Catholic Church.
The priest indicated that it is that year that the two got to know each other and with time, their friendship blossomed into love.
“Vincent did not know Angela through online platforms but when she was studying at St Theresa’s. The two have been great friends for long and I got to know about that relationship and I addressed that appropriately because by then they were very young and they had important matters to address in their studies,” Fr Thomas said.
He added that when they spoke with the deceased on November 15, 2024, he asked him about Angeline after he heard that the two were having some issues.
Father Thomas claimed that Vincent told him that Angela had contemplated committing suicide twice while in the USA, but he helped her out.
The priest added that after their conversation, things did not work well as his late brother wondered how she had known that they were having problems.
The police in Kisii have not given any progress in the investigations about the matter so far.
He asked the public to give the two families time to grief and said when the truth shall be established, it shall be made manifest.
When the bodies of the two lovers were found lying on a mattress in their living room, they two were holding hands together. Used syringes were discovered from the house.
Angela had just returned into the country from the US, after she allegedly differed with her husband leading to their separation.
She moved to the USA in 2015 after winning a green card lottery.
She left behind her seven year old son, whom she got with her ex-husband.
At Vincent’ burial, Fr Thomas, the cleric and Vincent’s brother, gave further details saying the intern doctor called him while in hospital and heard someone crying in the background.
“On that evening, I called him again but he asked me to chat with him on WhatsApp. I requested him that if he is not comfortable where he was, he should retreat back home for some days so that he may redeem his peace of mind because I could tell that he was disturbed,” Fr Thomas said.
He enquired whether he needed some financial support in bringing all his belongings home, because he was also preparing to leave the country to look for greener pastures abroad. But that did not happen.
Father Thomas said that a day later, he called his late brother and asked him whether he had packed his things but realized that he had changed his mind.
Fr Thomas said that after he declined to talk to the other priests, Vincent wrote him a message and told him that he had started seeing darkness.
He noted that when his family went to collect his belongings from the Nyamataro apartment, following their deaths, they found a note which he claimed was authored by Angela.
The man of the cloth said that the note had reasons why Angela presumably took her own life but he did not disclose them.
He said they had handed the note to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to help them in conducting their investigations.
“That note is with the DCI and I do not want to pretend to be one of them. Let them do their work. But if you ask me, because I know the reasons that were in that note, this boy is innocent,” Fr Thomas said and then asked those who were talking more of the duo’s deaths to stop perpetuating lies.
