Nairobi: Car Wash Guy Who'd Delivered Carpet to 4 Nigerians Falls from 5th Floor of Apartment, Dies

 

Four Nigerian nationals are in police custody as investigators strive to settle the puzzle that is the mysterious death of a 25-year-old Nairobi car wash attendant. The deceased was delivering a carpet on the fifth floor of a residential apartment in Riruta, Nairobi (image for illustration purposes).Charles Waga Owino is said to have jumped to his death from the fifth floor of a residential apartment in Riruta. Nairobi car wash attendant's missing pants He met his tragic death while delivering a carpet to the Nigerians residing at the Corner Heights Apartments, Naivasha Road, Nairobi News reports. Efforts to rescue him proved futile as he was confirmed dead upon arrival at the Ngong Road's Coptic Hospital. "A car wash guy has jumped from the 5th floor, but he had come to deliver a carpet to some Nigerians on the 7th floor, room 56,” an eyewitness is quoted as saying. The foreigners told the police that they had settled Waga's KSh 400 charge before letting him go. They would then hear him screaming before removing his clothes and then jumping off the floor. The police at the scene recovered the deceased's belongings, among them a mobile phone, earring, and cap. Strangely, the investigators established that Waga did not have his trousers when he landed on the ground. “The victim was only found with his t-shirt on and did not have his pants,” an officer was quoted as saying.The eyewitnesses further revealed that Waga's clients were at first unbothered about the tragic fall. Video: Courtesy Police suspect the incident is a murder, having found out that the building's balcony's railings are too high for one to jump easily. The body was booked into a morgue awaiting autopsy as the Nigerians remained at Satellite Police Station as the investigators concluded their probe. Recently, Nigeria's High Commission in Nairobi came out to shield its nationals against claims that they perpetrate murders in Kenya. An impression had been propagated that the foreigners kill, especially women, to use the remains in their purported ritualistic acts. Why Kenyans rose against Nigerians Kenyans on X, formerly Twitter, were on a rampage, running banners calling for the deportation of a cohort of the West African country's citizens who might be in Nairobi illegally. This was a reaction to the murder of a woman in a short-term rental house where her body was dismembered and boy parts scattered, with the head missing to date. Three people were arrested, including a Nigerian. It was widely presumed that some of the Nigerians and other foreigners living on the outskirts of Nairobi capitalise on the local women while undertaking fraudulent acts like money laundering and debauchery, leading to murders. Seeking to disprove the assertion linking the visitors to the murders, their High Commission suggested it was all in bad taste. What did Nigeria's High Commission say? According to the diplomatic mission in the Kenyan capital, such killings were being claimed on the Nigerians even without evidence. "Following the unfortunate murders of two young ladies in the past couple of weeks which have rightly elicited public condemnation, the High Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Nairobi is concerned by the preponderance of online blogs, doctored videos and social media posts, maliciously entrenching a spurious speculation that 'Nigerians' have perpetrated these heinous crimes," the consulate said.  Noting supposed attacks on Nigerians, the consulate counselled them to "remain calm and to continue to be law-abiding and respectable members of the public." They were also advised against making unnecessary movements even as investigations went on and formal communication from the host law enforcement authorities awaited. Kenyans were, on their part, asked to desist from profiling their Nigerian counterparts, and the High Commission offering to partner with the local law enforcement agencies where the need to address a concern arises. 

by  Kai Eli