On November 9, 2026, Fathi Abdirahman, 23, fell from the 7th floor of a building in Kiambu. In an interview with ‘The Eastleigh Voice,’ Khadija Osman, Abdirahman's cousin, stated that Abdirahman had traveled from Eastleigh to Kiambu to apply for a passport. Abdirahman had told her in a call that she would meet people at the location who would assist her with the application.
At around 2:30 p.m., Abdirahman called Osman again to tell her she had arrived in Kiambu. About thirty minutes later, Osman received a call from an unknown number. The caller informed her that Abdirahman had died after falling from a building.
The Standard reports that surveillance footage obtained by police captured Abdirahman on the rooftop of Tsavo Sunset 2 Apartments with two unidentified men. Later, the three were seen walking down to the 13th floor. One of the men entered an apartment while Abdirahman was talking on her phone in the hallway of the floor.
A short while later, Abdirahman entered the apartment for a brief moment. She exited the apartment alone, still talking on her phone, walked down the hallway to the stairwell, and descended to the 7th floor. The Standard reports, “Upon reaching the seventh floor, she reportedly went over the ledge, landing on her back in the neighboring vacant lot.”
In her interview with The Eastleigh Voice, Osman stated that the male caller told her that Abdirahman had jumped to her death from one of the floors of the building. The caller hung up the phone immediately after informing her and didn’t answer any of her return calls. Osman also said it was believed that Abdirahman was in the company of a Somali woman, and the two had allegedly entered a house together with several non-Somali men.
A preliminary police assessment treats the death as a suspected suicide. However, police are working on finding the two unidentified men so that they can piece together what happened during that time. Her family and the online community have called for “a thorough, transparent investigation,” reports The Standard.
Abdirahman’s body was moved to St. Theresa Hospital Mortuary. An autopsy will be conducted to shed light on the cause of her death.
Abdirahman was a TikToker with more than 100,000 followers on the platform, where she went by the name Tushta.
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