On a day like this three years ago, popular Kikuyu musician Murimi Wa Kahalf was buried at his Gatugura home in Gichugu, Kirinyaga County.
Born Sammy Murimi Nderi, the famous singer died at St Francis Hospital in Kasarani where he was receiving treatment.
Before his death on June 4, 2015, the 'Ino Ni Momo' and 'Kamunguna' hitmaker had been admitted at the Aga Khan Hospital for several weeks where he was battling a mysterious disease that doctors could not diagnose.
According to his mother, Grace Kanuthu, days before his demise, Wa Kahalf insisted on being taken to Meru to meet some 'witchdoctors' whom he claimed had kept calling him in his dreams.
On June 3, Kanuthu half-heartedly gives in to the singer's demands and they embarked on a journey to Igembe where they met five men who were to 'heal' Wa Kahalf.
In a past interview with a local daily, Kanuthu said the 'healers' went round his son, who was lying helplessly on the ground, several times holding gourds of honey while chanting and casting away 'demons'.
They then slaughtered a sheep and fed him pieces of cooked meat and soup and allowed them to return to his Nairobi home.
However, on their return journey, the musician's health condition worsened and he could not stop screaming.
"His stomach was like an inflated balloon. I have never seen such before. He wanted us to perforate it with a knife. He was screaming in pain but there was nothing we could do," Kanuthu told The Nairobian, adding that before he passed on, the singer vomited and relieved himself of some bizarre stuff.
Upon reaching St Francis Hospital, Wa Kahalf asked for some water and after taking it, his stomach deflated and it was then that he took his last breath, his cousin told the daily.
Kanuthu accused Wa Kahalf second wife, Nancy Karambu, of bewitching his son, a claim Karambu dismissed, denying that she was behind the Igembe 'witchdoctors' saga.
"That is weird. I don't remember meeting witchdoctors in Meru. I don't know who poisoned his mind with witchcraft claims but he kept telling friends he was bewitched," Karambu stated.
Karambu had previously been accused of attempting to poison the musician, forcing him to relocate to his first wife Pastor Zaweria Wang'ombe.
Interestingly, ten days before his death, Wa Kahalf could have predicted his demise as evident by his last Facebook post.
"When you walk in the shadow of the valley of death, it's only the spirit of God that can lead you. Lord reign forever," posted Wa Kahalf on May 26.
Three years on, the cause of his death has remained mysterious just like the illness that the doctors could not diagnose.
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