Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have exhumed remains suspected to be those of former Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA) Managing Director (MD) Silvenus Tubei.
According to television footage from his Chepkurmum farm, officers used shovels to dig up the grave site where they were found over the weekend.
The DCI officers attached to the homicide squad will then take the remains for a DNA test to determine if it was indeed Tubei.
The body of Tubei, who vanished twelve years prior, was found buried in a shallow grave beside a flower bed a short distance from his opulent residence.
Hundreds of friends and family members showed up to watch the drill.
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A full adult human skeleton was found three days ago when a gardener, trying to pull something out of the dirt, stumbled onto a blanket that was buried.
The family called in a distress call because the clothes the deceased was wearing the morning he vanished matched the ones inside the skeleton and the blanket.
According to Albert Tubei, the deceased nephew, they were almost sure the remains were those of their kin.
Officers from the DCI secured the area, marked it as a crime scene, and asked the family of Tubei to protect it until an order from the court was secured to have it exhumed.
The homicide officers secured a court order for today’s exhumation.
