Toto Touch CEO Susan Kamengere Njoki, was relaxing at her Kileleshwa home on the evening of July 16, 2025, when four strangers stormed into her bedroom. They claimed to be acting on orders from her psychiatrist and “abusive” husband, KCB banker Alois Ngure.
The four sedated her, forced her out of her home and committed her into Braeside Chiromo Psychiatric Hospital in Nairobi.
Less than 24 hours later, Susan was dead.
What happened between the moment Susan Kamengere was taken and the time her lifeless body was returned from a psychiatric hospital?
What Happened to Susan Kamengere?
On the evening of July 16, 2025, four people, two men and two women, stormed into her bedroom without warning. Susan was in bed.
Confused, she asked, “Are there unpaid bills?” trying to make sense of the intrusion. But these were medics and not debt collectors.
Despite her resistance, the four held her down and injected her in both gluteal muscles. Susan told them she was allergic to certain medications. Her warnings were ignored.
Moments later, she was dragged from her home and placed into a vehicle. While in the car, she sent a note and sent it to a friend.
“They stormed into my house… forced an injection… I told them I was allergic,” she said.
“They said we are taking you to Lavington. They just injected me. Is it Braeburn, Braeside, or Chiromo?”
She sounded confused and scared. In another part, she stated:
“They forced me to lie down and injected me again. I told them I was allergic to some medication. If death looks like this, let them take me back home.”
Susan Kamengere also made a Facebook post around the same time, which has since been deleted. In it, she wrote:
“Now a group of nurses have invaded my bedroom and forced an injection on me—in both gluteal muscles. They said they were sent by my doctor. If I do not survive, know this was planned.”
Susan’s family says she had bipolar disorder but was stable and mentally sound.
Susan had also told friends and family that her husband, Alois Ngure, was abusive and controlling.And that he did not want her living in their home and had once suggested she go stay with a bishop. And that he was refusing to divorce her. Those close to her say he had a history of using her mental health diagnosis to manipulate her.
She was admitted to Braeside Chiromo Psychiatric Hospital that night. By the following morning, that of July 17, Susan Kamengere Njoki was dead.
Susan Kamengere Cause and Time of Death
A 4-hour postmortem carried out on July 22 at Montezuma Monalisa Funeral Home and led by six pathologists shows Susan Kamengere was strangled to death.
She was killed approximately four hours after her last meal last on Tuesday, and a day after she was admitted to the facility without her consent.
“There were signs of pressure to the neck and lack of oxygen. This is not accidental. Manual strangulation is always homicidal. It cannot be self-inflicted.” Dr. Peter Maturi said.
We were not Allowed to See her- Family Says
As the family processed the shock of Susan’s sudden death, they were also blocked from seeing her while she was alive in hospital.
Her younger sister, Priscila Wanjiru, said she spoke to Susan at 6:30 a.m. on July 17. Hours later, she went to visit her, but was denied entry.
“I was told I needed permission from her husband. I went back in the afternoon with our aunt. Still, they refused. By the time we were let in, she was already dead.”
Susan’s older brother, Euphantus Kamengeri, who raised her after their mother died in 1994, was emotional but firm.
“I’ve been her half-father. The decision to take her to Chiromo was made by the husband. But her regular hospital was Aga Khan. The doctor at Chiromo couldn’t even confirm when he last saw her. This wasn’t a guess. Now we know the truth.”
Was the Husband Arrested?
The family’s lawyer, Ndegwa Njiru, said Susan’s husband and some hospital staff were arrested but later released on police bail after recording a statement. He warned that they may try to flee the country.
After public outrage, the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, and Dentists Council (KMPDC) ordered Chiromo Hospital’s Braeside branch to evacuate all patients and shut down operations while investigations continue.
The hospital’s CEO, Dr. Vincent Hongo, said they are fully cooperating and preserving all records.
Susan Kamengere was a medic, a mother of three, an entrepreneur, and a woman with plans for her future. She was not in crisis.
She was taken from her home under orders of her despiseful abusive husband and then found dead, strangled, in a hospital.
Now, her family, and the country, want answers and justice.
Her final words named who was responsible.
She said she was afraid.
And within hours, her fears became reality.
Rest in Power Susan Kamengere Njoki,
And may her killers never know peace.
By Vivian K.