KILIFI,Kenya, Nov, 27 – At least six months after Taimur Kariuki Hussein was allegedly abducted by Anti Terror Police Unit (ATPU) officers, he is now finally been reunited with his family.
The Victim’s sister Fauziya Hussein confirmed the news to Shahidi News saying that her brother called their mother saying that he was heading back to their Watamu home, in Kilifi county.
“He called my mother at around 6am saying that he was coming to Watamu,” said Hussein.
Grateful of the news Hussein further said that her brother was now resting albeit traumatised from the experience at the hands of his captors.
“Alhamdhullilah he is okay, we are still trying to absorb and digest everything….,” she said further saying,”God is so so good,”
The family is set to conduct a debriefing session with their kin after he is well rested.
What Happened To Taimur
It all started when Taimur Kariuki Hussein, a resident of Watamu in Malindi, was arrested on June 11 by the ATPU officers near Lamu.
“The officers said they had been following him for a while,” his sister, Fauziya Hussein told Shahidi News.
On Monday June 14, he was arraigned, but the charges were dropped four days later on June 18.
“He was transferred to Nairobi for further investigations and was later produced at the Kahawa Law Courts, where the officers sought for more time to conclude their investigations,” Fauziya said.
On June 28, she said that ATPU dropped all the charges levelled against her brother, with the court issuing orders that he be released without conditions.
But on the fateful day when he was released, “after a final exit interview with ATPU officers,” he went missing.
The agreement according to Fauziya was that he would be picked from the ATPU offices in Nairobi by his mother while in the company of his lawyer.
But on arrival, “my mum was told that he was released about 30 minutes ago.”
“Why didn’t he wait for us or even call, as he would every time, he got a chance?” she wondered.
His phones were however left with the ATPU officers for further interrogation, but he was to collect them on July 2. He never did.
The family efforts to get evidence that he was indeed released has hit a dead end, after the ATPU said they had deleted the CCTV footage of him leaving their premises.
This was after the family made an application in High Court, demanding that the ATPU produce “him dead or alive.”
The only evidence that he left the premises according to Fauziya is an Occurrence Book (OB) number.
“We are not convinced. They should tell us where our brother is,” she said. “I just want to know my brother is fine.”
She also wondered why the ATPU, “would delete the CCTV footage after every 24 hours?”
Statistics released by Missing Voices – a human rights Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) paints a forlorn picture of the state of forced disappearances in Kenya. As of July 2021, over 20 cases of extra-judicial killings and three cases of enforced disappearances in 15 separate incidents had been reported in 2021 alone.
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