A new twist has emerged over the painful death of the two-year-old boy Master Travis that he could have been hit with a fork jembe by his fighting parents.
The Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) yesterday introduced the new angle in the saga calling for an inquest into the matter.
Travis died with a fork jembe lodged in his head when the premier referral facility suggested that the boy could have been a victim of a fight involving his parents.
This, as the hospital termed as “high level of dishonest” claims by Judy Muthoni, the baby’s mother, that she was asked for Sh20, 000 before the baby could be operated on.
Appearing before the Senate Health Committee, KNH CEO Evanson Kamuri narrated to the senators how the mother, upon learning of her son’s demise, wailed saying her husband had aimed the jembe at her.
Muthoni had initially said that baby Travis had been hit on the head with a fork jembe by his elder sibling.
However, the CEO stated that the medics who attended to the child doubted if indeed the child was injured while playing with other children.
He called upon further investigations into the incident by an independent body to unravel the truth.
“It is an issue that requires to be investigated by another body. When we informed the woman about the death of her son, she started crying about how her baby had been killed by her husband,” Kamuri told the committee.
The injuries, Dr Kamuri said, were so severe to have been inflicted by a child.
“The mother needs to come clean about what happened. We are very sorry for what happened but we have also been asking ourselves questions,” he said.
“It was a severe injury that could not have been inflicted by other children while playing. That woman needs to come out clear on what exactly happened. We are very sorry for what happened but we have also been asking ourselves what happened,” he added.
