Why family has not laid to rest slain Meru blogger ‘Sniper’, yet

The family of slain Meru blogger Daniel Muthiani alias Sniper has maintained they will not bury their kin until they are satisfied justice has been served.
Julius Muthee, his elder brother, said despite the arrest of 10 individuals and their arraignment in court, the family is not satisfied. He claimed that “those who planned and financed the murder” were still free.
“We have decided that our brother will remain in the mortuary until such a time that those who executed the murder are not only arrested and charged but also convicted. The family is prepared to keep the body in the mortuary for as long as it takes for us to get justice,” Muthee said in a phone interview.
“As we speak we are living in fear and have been forced to flee our homes because some people who don’t want to hear us demand justice for our brother are after us. But we will not buy that fear,” he told nation.africa.
Muthiani was abducted on December 2, 2023, tortured and brutally murdered in mysterious circumstances. His body was found in a thicket on the banks of Mutonga River in Tharaka Nithi County on December 16.
A postmortem conducted on December 22 by government pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor revealed that Muthiani was tortured to death.
Among those charged with the murder is Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza’s brother Murangiri Kenneth Guantai, with the suspects awaiting a ruling on the bond application. The blogger’s murder raised political temperatures in Meru County, leading to demonstrations.
Dr Benjamin Kanake, the family doctor who witnessed the postmortem, said they were not in a hurry to lay him to rest until "all those involved are brought to book."

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“People are asking when Sniper will be buried and what we are telling them is that he was buried at Mutonga river where his body was dumped. The killers intended to completely obliterate evidence that he ever existed and the family has come to terms with that,” Dr Kanake said.
“I am taking the family through counselling and they have made it clear that burial is not on their minds. They say that those who planned, executed and financed the torture and brutal killing of their loved one should first be brought to book,” he added.
According to Dr Kanake, the parading of the body in various parts of the county, which a section of leaders had condemned, claiming the matter had been politicised would continue, saying they were doing so as a lesson to the killers.