NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 7- Frantic efforts to look for missing kin by a family in Nairobi remain unsuccessful and they are now hanging on hope, even though they say there is none.
It is with the country’s disturbing record of disappearances, some enforced, that has left the family of Trevor Ndwiga Nyaga alias Jamal Idris worried.
They are worried about becoming part of the growing statistics of families whose relatives have gone missing, never to be found. Others have been found brutally killed and their bodies dumped, say in a river or a morgue, in a far land from their home.
Nyaga, according to relatives and police who spoke to Shahidi News went missing on September 3 in Hamza estate, which is located along Jogoo road.
“We have been to hospitals and mortuaries in Nairobi and neighbouring Counties, he is not there,” Nyaga’s mother, Diana Ndinga said.
She was speaking to Shahidi News.
“I am devastated and worried over my son’s safety,” as if in deep thoughts and facing in a different direction, she said.
After a prolonged silence, she rhetorically asked, “now, where is my son?”
While she is dealing with the fear of losing him, looking for him, she says, is an expensive affair.
A detective who spoke to Shahidi News on condition of anonymity said one of Nyaga’s phones was traced in Wajir on September 4, a day after he went missing.
-Active terror case-
Nyaga has had an active terror-related case dating for more than 2 years now.
In November 2019, Nyaga who converted to Islam while in secondary school was arrested by Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU).
He was charged in Milimani law courts with being in possession of extremist materials according to the charge sheet seen by Shahidi News.
Detectives from the anti-terror unit also said he was found with materials that included bomb manuals.
Further, detectives said they found with him a recorded video in which he pledged allegiance to terror groups.
He denied all the charges leveled against him.
Having been denied bond, Nyaga was remanded at Kamiti maximum Prison until September 2020.
This was after the court released him on a Sh2 million bond. Since then, Nyaga has been attending court sessions until his disappearance.
The court has since been notified of his disappearance.
The 21-year-old had recently started a second-hand shoe business along Jogoo road.
Have you seen Nyaga? The family is pleading for your help, to establish his whereabouts.
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