A DCI wife burns herself after a domestic dispute with her husband Police Constable Joshua Makanga

DCI headquarters in Nairobi. FILE

Machinery Police Station police officers' wife in Makueni County nurses severe burns for reportedly setting herself on fire after dispute.


DCI officer roasts herself using paraffin after her husband Constable Joshua Makanga denies her, " his banana" after a busy day. The husband said he was tired and had to rush for sleep.


Police Constable Joshua Makanga, in his report at the same police station, said that his wife, Dorina Luchera, set herself on fire after pouring paraffin mixed with Petrol on her body.


Constable Makanga said that his wife, a detective based at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters in Nairobi, roasted herself in response to a little domestic dispute.


“Police officers rushed to the scene and found that the officer had sustained 52 per cent burns all over her body,” said the statement recorded by the husband.


The DCI officer was taken to the Kibwezi Sub-County Hospital where she is admitted in fair condition.