Flying Squad quizzes Mlolongo APs over three missing people

The officers were on duty at the camp on the day lawyer Willie Kimani, taxi driver Joseph Muiruri and boda boda operator Josephat Mwenda disappeared

The Flying Squad have questioned three APs at the Mlolongo AP camp over the mysterious disappearance of three people, including lawyer Willie Kimani.

The three officers were on duty at the camp on the day Kimani, taxi driver Joseph Muiruri and boda boda operator Josephat Mwenda disappeared.

It is alleged that Kimani, Muiruri and Mwenda were abducted on Mombasa Road and locked up at the camp. In their statements, the officers have denied the three were ever locked up in the camp.

Kimani, Muiruri and Mwenda have been missing for the last one week.

Investigators are, however, yet to get any tangible evidence linking one of the APs believed to behind the disappearance with the offence.

Mobile phone analysis of the three AP officers who have been interrogated, shows they never left the camp at the reported time of abduction.

The mysterious disappearance has seen lawyers nationwide protest to Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet, demanding that the three be produced.

Court documents show that Kimani, Muiruri and Mwenda had attended the hearing of a case in which Mwenda faced six traffic offences on the day they went missing.

In the case, two other officers, Stanslus Wambua and Japheth Kioko Kilundo, based at the Athi River AP camp, testified against Mwenda. The case was, however, adjourned to September 1. Mwenda had been accused of carrying excess passengers and was released on Sh50,000 bond.

Three other APs, Wilson Kamau, Fredrick Lelimal, a Munguti and the former Mlolongo police station commander Moses Wambugu are listed as prosecution witnesses.

In his testimony, Lelimal told the court that Mwenda was a known criminal arrested for smoking bhang and playing cards. He told the court he has no personal differences with the suspect.

(+) rights groups call for probe

On Wednesday, 10 human rights groups called for immediate investigation of officers allegedly involved in the disappearance of the three and subsequent "cover up" of the "heinous act". They claimed Muiruri had at different times faced threats and intimidation from an officer based at the Mavoko AP camp, Machakos county. The rights groups said police attempted to cover up the incident by charging Muiruri with possession of narcotics, gambling, and resisting arrest.

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