Residents in Eastleigh estate are now living in fear following brutal murder of three women.
The mutilated bodies of the three women were discovered at three separate locations in Machakos, Parklands, and Bahati in Nairobi on Tuesday.
Severed hands believed to have been dismembered from one of the victims were later found in South C in move, Nairobi.
According to area Member of Parliament Yussuf Hassan the three were mother, her daughter, and her niece.
“The Eastleigh community is utterly devastated today, the neighbourhood is mourning over the terrible calamity that has befallen us the murder of three women,” he stated
Adding that, “The has never happened before and therefore there is fear, there is panic and I call upon the police and security authorities to act very quickly and restore the confidence of the community.”
Hassan said this will ensure that common lives are protected and security of all the people of Eastleigh and Nairobi is secured and to make sure that the suspects are brought to book and punished.
“It is terrible to lose three members of the public the way we have lost the lives and more shocking is that their bodies were mutilated, they have been tortured and we suspect that they were raped, ”Hassan added.
Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna said the three were murdered in a shocking manner and it is troubling that there are people who can do such things to human beings and more so from the same family.
“Such cases are becoming common and it is worrying if we are really safe, it is unfair that this is being witnessed yet we have security agencies, why are all these happening without anyone’s knowledge,” he wondered.