A lawyer and his client have gone missing in mysterious circumstances hours after attending a criminal case at the Mavoko law court.
Willie Kimani, a lawyer at a US-backed NGO - Internal Justice Mission - was representing Eric Mwenda, who has sued an Administration Police officer for attempted murder.
Also missing is a taxi driver of the car the two used from the law courts last Thursday.
It is believed the three were hijacked by armed gunmen on Mombasa road at around 2 pm.
The lawyer had accompanied Mwenda to Mavoko law courts for the hearing of a case. Mwenda claims the officer shot him after they disagreed over personal issues after which the policeman charged him with illegal possession of bhang which he says is not true.
Mwenda sought help from IJM and claimed AP officers were intimidating and pressuring him to withdraw the case. The taxi was abandoned at Kamirithu village in Tigoni on Saturday - a day after they were reported missing.
A mobile phone said to belong to Kimani was traced to a tea plantation in the same area but is yet to be recovered.
Detectives traced the signals of the mobile phone from mobile phone service providers.
Three other colleagues, who were in a second car, reported back to the office after the court session.
On Saturday morning, residents of Kijabe village reported to Lari Police Station that they had spotted two bodies at a swamp at Monkey Corner near Naivasha.
Detectives from the Kijabe Police Station retrieved the bodies of two well dressed men and moved them to the Naivasha District hospital mortuary.
There is suspicion they could be bodies of the two. The two men appeared to have been strangled with ropes which were still tied around their necks.
By last evening, the two bodies were yet to be identified.
Detectives from the Nairobi Flying squad are investigating the case.
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