NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 30- A special team under the Homicide Unit based at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations has been set up, with a mandate of unraveling the mystery behind the killing of four friends after being abducted in Kitengela, Kajiado County.
Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai on Friday said the team has four weeks to probe the matter and submit a report to him.
“This morning, I directed the DCI homicide team to investigate this matter in order to get to the bottom of it. The team has already begun its work and will be expected to report to the IG on the entire matter within a month,” the police boss said.
Elijah Obuong, Jack Anyango, Benjamin Imbai and Brian Oduor went missing on April 19 after a lunch meeting in Kitengela.
About 500 metres from the eatery, their car, a Toyota Mark X was found abandoned at a parking lot the following day.
On Wednesday and Thursday relatives positively identified the bodies of Imbai and Obuong.
A third body found near Obuong’s body in Murang’a is yet to be identified while the fourth one is yet to be found.
The Inspector General of Police spoke at the National Police College in Kiganjo on Friday amid growing speculations how the four men vanished shortly after meeting for lunch and who could have been involved.
The family of Jack Onyango, who is among those reported missing, said on Friday that the body found in the Mathioya river on Thursday was not Onyango’s.
This deepened the mystery on where the bodies of Onyango and Oduor could be.
Police had recovered the third body after being informed of the same by sand harvesters..
The body did not have upper limbs and is lying at the Murang’a County mortuary.
Obuong’s body was on April 20 found in river Mukungai which is just a few metres away from river Mathioya and taken to the same morgue.
This was a day after their abduction.
Imbai’s body was on April 20 found in Kieni forest, Gatundu North constituency and taken to the Kago Road General Funeral home.
There are growing calls for the police to expose the killers.
This is the latest incident of people, including suspects of crime being abducted and only for their bodies to be found in morgues.
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