Police from Limuru faced hard times on Friday morning while trying to book an unidentified body at Tigoni mortuary in Kiambu County.
For hours after picking the body at about 1 am yesterday in Kamandura area along the Nairobi-Nakuru highway, the officers held on to the body as the management told the officers that the morgue does not receive unidentified bodies.
They were then forced to transport the body to Nairobi Funeral Home in search of an alternative facility.
But on arrival, they were informed that the mortuary was not receiving bodies from outside Nairobi County and were advised to return the body to Kiambu County.
Police say they sought assistance within Kiambu but were referred back to a mortuary within their own jurisdiction, leaving them with no option but to return to Tigoni.
There it is reported that at some point, they forcefully opened the gate amid a confrontation before the body was accepted.
Limuru sub-County Police Commander Mary Gachie termed the incident unfortunate, saying the officers had spent more than nine hours searching for a facility willing to admit the body adding that this was not the first incident.
