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Security expert missing since Saturday

Security expert missing since Saturday
Security analyst Mwenda Muthuri Mbijiwe. Photo/PD/File

Security analyst Mwenda Muthuri Mbijjiwe has been missing since Saturday when he reportedly left Nairobi for Meru, his rural home.

Family members says the former military officer, was last seen driving a hired car and was accompanied by a friend, said to be a police officer, who was also driving a hired car.

Yesterday, police sources said the car, a Toyota Fielder, had been found parked on the roadside in Kigumo, Murang’a.

“His phone has been switched for this long,” said a friend who sought anonymity.

Preliminary investigations  indicate  the car signal went off around Thika, something said to have been corroborated by his friends. His phone has been switched off since then.

In a Facebook page, Mbijjiwe’s sister yesterday said the matter had been reported at the Central Police Station, Nairobi.

Facebook post

“We are in distress as we announce the disappearance of Hon. Mwenda Mbijjiwe (security analyst and former Governor aspirant Meru county) since June 12 (Saturday) 8pm.

It’s believed he was travelling to Meru that Saturday morning, he even called one of the family members to inform her he was on his way but that was the last time anyone heard from him,” she wrote.

She added: “Kindly remember him and the family in prayers. Share widely.”

Mbijjiwe’s last Facebook post was on June 11, a day before he went missing. In the post, he castigated the Judiciary for alleged activism.

“What you are witnessing in Kenya now is the rise of judicial activism and the self-assertion of radical judges. These will in not-so-far future transform into legislators of law.

They will usurp the power of the Executive and the Legislature and change laws at will.

One day the Supreme Court of Kenya will declare that abortion is legal; same-sex marriages are legal and many other things,” he wrote.

Mbijjiwe, the chief executive of Eye on Security (K) Ltd, has in the past had a brush with the law and had been charged with fraudulently acquiring Sh150,000 from a man after convincing him that he could connect him with the United Nations.

Elsewhere, police are looking for a 23-year-old woman who was kidnapped by unknown people in Kamukunji area, Nairobi. 

Hafsa Mohamed Lukman is missing since she was kidnapped on Tuesday by men who have made ransom demands to the family.

The woman, according to the police and the family, was last seen in Eastleigh. 

There has been a rise in number of kidnappings in the country in recent months.

On Wednesday, a three-year-old girl was reunited with her family after seven days with kidnappers. 

She was dropped off near her home in Pipeline area in Nairobi.

Kenya is among 35 countries listed by the United States where cases of kidnapping are frequent. 

Other African countries on the list include Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.

Some of kidnap victims went missing and are yet to be traced. 

Among them is businessman Dafton Mwitiki who went missing on March 11 last year.  

Two days later, his car was found off the Kimbo-Kiganjo Road in Juja, Kiambu County.  The probe into the incident is ongoing.

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