Margaret Muthoni, the mother of Edwin Maingi Ndegwa, who was killed at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) last week, now wants the hospital’s management held to account.

Ms Muthoni questioned why the management decided to keep suspect Kennedy Kalombotole at the facility despite being flagged by police over the murder of Gilbert Kinyua in February 2025.

“Why should people go to collect the bodies of their loved ones, yet it is not as a result of the particular sickness that took them to Kenyatta?” Muthoni posed.

Speaking to the Sunday Standard, the mother said that Ndegwa, 54, was due to travel to the United Kingdom to join his family, a trip he would have made earlier, but he chose to stay behind to take care of her.

Muthoni says she is yet to receive any word from a government official, either offering condolences or promising any action.

The death of her son at the hands of a cold-blooded killer was the last thing she ever expected.

The hospital was very secure, she says, given the guards at the entrance of every ward, as well as others patrolling the corridors, as well as armed police men and a police station in the compound.

“I am very bitter, and I want justice to be done. I do not know how it happened in the view of the nurses and doctors at the report desk,” she said.

Muthoni, who is now left with two children, told the Sunday Standard how Ndegwa stepped in as the head of the family after the death of his father in 2001.

She said she had called her son’s number over three times, thinking he would pick only to be told that he was dead.

Her family had received positive reports from the doctors that he would be discharged on Friday, a promise that Muthoni personally got from the doctors.

She wondered how KNH never kept close supervision of her son’s suspected killer after the notice from DCI.

The mother put the management of the KNH to task over the continued stay of Kalomboto, le even though there had been reports that he could be suffering from a mental problem.

Detectives showed her surveillance footage, they say captured Kalombotole after the murder and even tried to get rid of evidence by cleaning his clothes that had blood on them as well as a knife suspected to be the murder weapon.

She questions why the hospital staff did not notice the blood on Kalombotole’s clothes, yet the report desk faces the ward, and the washrooms are not far.

Reports indicate the blood under the suspect’s bed was noticed by a cleaner who then notified the management, and a probe commenced, leading to his arrest.

Muthoni Saimany’s homes in the country could have taken the suspect in after he was discharged in January 2025, when the home where he was before readmission in December 2024 refused to take him back.

Muthoni wants to know the religious organisation that housed Kalombotole before.

“Even the nurses who serve there are in danger because they have a murderer inside, living with them. There is something very wrong. Kenyatta Hospital is in a mess,” the mother said.

She said she had been left without a helper following the son’s death and wants the government to take charge and clean up KNH.

“My question is: Where is justice going to come from? My son is dead, but not because of the sickness that took him to Kenyatta,  but because of the negligence of the staff,” Muthoni said.

She blamed the laxity of the KNH security team, as well as the people who were in charge of the war, on the afternoon Ndegwa was brutally killed.

The family is waiting for a post-mortem, which is slated for tomorrow, to begin burial plans.

KNH management issued a status update on social media on Friday, saying the suspect had been kept there after advice from police.

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations, also through social media, said that the probe file into the February killing of Kinyua was still with them after it was returned by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Eyes are now on Mohamed Amin (DCI) and William Sigilai (KNH), as well as President William Ruto, for action.