Wife To Slain Meru Pastor Recounts Their Last Phone Call: "Tulipanga Vile Watoto Watarudi Shule"

• Josephine Mukiri, the widow of Pastor Moses Kirimi, revealed their last conversation during an interview
• Mukiri recounted that they spoke about preparing their children for school shopping before the weekend, following the government's directive to reopen schools
• The grieving mother of three shared her side of events leading up to her husband's body being found

Didacus Malowa, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

Meru - Josephine Mukiri, the widow of Pastor Moses Kirimi, has opened up about their last conversation.

During an interview with NTV Kenya, the mother of three revealed that she talked to her husband on the day that he disappeared.

What happened to Pastor Moses Kirimi?

Following the directive to reopen schools by the national government, Mukiri said they were preparing for their children's second term.

Mukiri explained that they agreed she would take the children out to do their school shopping before the weekend.

The grieving mother shared her side of the story, giving a chronology of events before her husband's lifeless body was discovered.

"We spoke on Thursday morning around 7am and planned how the children would return to school. We agreed that on Friday I would take them shopping. When the house was opened by the police, that's when people started saying he had been murdered, and they began to make noise," shared the grieving widow.

Who discovered Kirimi's body

According to his colleagues, the man of God was unreachable by phone, and efforts to locate him proved futile as his relatives couldn't either.

Three days later, a Sunday school teacher at the church discovered the body inside the preacher's rented house.

The teacher was attracted by a stench emanating from the room, leading to the grim discovery of his lifeless body.

Police were contacted and showed up at the house, which they broke into and found the body.

The cleric had also been robbed of his phones, tablets and laptop by his assailants before killing him.

Family shares Kirimi's autopsy results

Earlier, Kirimi's family made public his post-mortem examination results after it was conducted at the Meru Teaching and Referral Hospital.

Kirimi's brother revealed that the cleric died of severe bleeding caused by numerous deep cuts in his neck.

The pastor's eyes were gouged out when the body was found, painting a grim image of the pain he experienced before death.

Proofreading by Asher Omondi, current affairs journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.