Police in Nairobi are investigating an incident whereby four friends went missing after allegedly being arrested by police.
The four were arrested in Eastleigh area by armed men.
According to Buruburu DCI Boss Jackson Muriuki, Jamal Bonaya and Teddy Muriuki and their two friends who are yet to be identified, went missing on October 6.
The families are now demanding the police to produce their loved ones.
Jamal’s family has visited most of the police stations and morgues in Nairobi in search of their kin but their efforts have proved futile.
Jamal, a father of five, left home for work at a car wash but never returned home.
“My husband went missing on Wednesday October 6. The last time he came home was at around four, he just picked his jacket as usual and left like he was going to work, the next day he did not return home and I went to look for him,” said Jamal’s wife Khadija.
Jamal’s brother Mohamed Dida said that they began looking for him two days after he went missing.
“Since he was not seen at home, from October 8, we started going to police stations, we have gone to Eastleigh, Shauri Moyo, Kasarani, Mwiki, Anti-terror, Kilimani, finally we were told to look for him at the mortuary,” said Dida.
Muriuki’s family in Limuru, Kiambu county is also desperate to establish the whereabouts of their loved one.
According to his family, they were informed that he was arrested by armed police officers on the day they went missing.
“I was told he got arrested in Eastleigh on date 6, and it was confirmed that he had gone missing, he has been looked for in police stations but he has not been found,” said Julius Kimani, Muruiki’s relative.
According to those who witnessed the four getting arrested at Mohamed Yusuf Haji Avenue, the car in which Muriuki and Jamal were using got blocked by a police car. They were ordered out of the car and told to lie on the tarmac.
The four were then bundled into the alleged police car which drove off as one of the armed men took charge of the friends’ car that had been hired.
The car was later abandoned in Kasarani. The DCIO said that the car is currently at the station and that the owner has recorded the statement as police look into the matter.
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