KMTC Student Anne Adhiambo’s Parents Collect Her Belongings as Murder Investigation Continues
Anne Adhiambo’s parents traveled to Kenya Medical Training College’s Nairobi campus this week to collect her belongings from room 220, days after the final-year clinical medicine student was found dead in her hostel. A postmortem found injuries consistent with a violent assault. Police are treating the death as a suspected murder, and detectives are still working to establish exactly what happened and who was involved.
Adhiambo, a Higher Diploma student in Clinical Medicine who joined KMTC in September 2024, was found unresponsive in her room at Kenyatta Hostel on the night of July 7. She was due to graduate within days.
Her father was filmed outside the hostel asking how he was supposed to go home carrying only her things. Her mother knelt at the gate and prayed before they collected her belongings.
What the autopsy found
The postmortem, conducted on July 10 at Nairobi Funeral Home, found multiple internal injuries. Pathologists noted dark marks around her tongue, pointing to oxygen deprivation, along with bite marks on her abdomen and blood around her nose. Investigators are treating the findings as consistent with assault.
KMTC had initially declined to disclose a cause of death, saying it would wait for the postmortem. Police have since opened a murder investigation.
A dispute over a missing pair of trousers
Multiple accounts, including from KTN News, describe a heated exchange between Adhiambo and fellow students over a missing pair of trousers shortly before her death. A witness told KTN she had been singing hymns in her room before she went quiet.
Some reporting names five female classmates as the alleged attackers and says they have since left campus. That specific detail has not been independently confirmed by police or by other outlets, which describe the confrontation only as involving “fellow students.” No arrests have been publicly announced.
Detectives are also trying to establish how her body ended up in her own room, on a different floor from where witnesses say the confrontation took place.
Family demands answers
Adhiambo’s family has recorded a statement at Kilimani Police Station and is pushing KMTC’s administration for accountability. A relative told KTN they wanted justice and to know what actually happened. Reports suggest the Law Society of Kenya may get involved to support the family.
KMTC CEO Dr. Kelly Oluoch confirmed the death in a statement, extending condolences and saying the college is cooperating fully with investigators.
A murder investigation inside a national training college for future health workers raises hard questions about safety in campus hostels. Until police name suspects or file charges, anyone accused remains exactly that: accused.
