NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 24- The body of a missing Directorate of Criminal Investigations detective based in Embu is among three that were found in Kabarnet, dumped by unknown people in different locations.
All the bodies were bearing consistent torture marks according to the witnesses’ recount.
The officer went missing on January 20 and his car was found abandoned on a feeder road in Isiolo County.
“All the doors had been unlocked,” a detective who saw the car told Shahidi News.
Inside the car, detectives found two diaries and two pairs of black shoes.
A day after on January 21, preliminary investigations revealed that the car belonged to a missing police officer, who was identified as Abdarahim Adow Abdullahi.
A missing report had been filed by his wife, only identified to Shahidi News by police as Fozia.
“On the fateful night he went missing, the officer had talked to his wife but then, his phone thereafter was switched off,” a detective privy to the details of the incident told Shahidi News.
His body was found dumped in Kolol valley in Elgeyo Marakwet County.
How did the officer who was posted move for hundreds of kilometres from Embu to Elgeyo Marakwet?
Why was he tortured before being murdered?
The body, detectives said, “had marks of strangulation on the neck. It appeared that he was killed somewhere else and the body dumped there.”
Further, officers revealed that just like the rest of the bodies, he was found naked.
The late officer’s relatives on Monday positively identified the body as that of the kin.
The two other bodies were found along Kabarnet-Iten road.
Nancy Kiptoon, an official at the Baringo County Social Justice called for investigations, in order to know who, the deceased were and the people involved in their death.
“Interestingly, the three bodies had similar marks of torture,” she said.
Local legislators have also condemned the killings.
This comes at a time when the country is still grappling with the discovery of floating bodies in River Yala, within Siaya County.
Over 20 unidentified bodies have been collected from the river.
There has been a worrying trend of enforced disappearances and subsequent killings according to available statistics by human rights organisations.
For example, HAKI Africa has documented more than 8 cases of enforced disappearance in 2022 and more than 40 last year.
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