A Family In Kahawa West Is Appealing To Inspector-General Japheth Koome To Intervene And Help Them Find Their Kin Who Was Lost Close To 8 Months Ago
By: John Kariuki
Worth Noting:
- On the day he went missing, Gatimu said they were together in Thika, where Karuku was seeking medical attention at a local hospital.
- The queue was long and Gatimu excused himself to go to his house. On his way, he visited a barber shop and when done, he tried to call his brother but the call did not go through.
- “His phone just rang for a few minutes then later it went off. We have even tried to track his with no success,’ said Gatimu.
- Gatimu said that later that evening, his friend told him that he had spotted Karuku’s car near Tatu City, and when they went there, they found the vehicle.
The family say that their efforts to find Stephen Mutini Karuku have not borne any fruits as they are already caught in the pull and push between the offices of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) as they look for a relative who has been missing.
On one hand, the DCI is telling the family that the file about police officers suspected of kidnapping Karuku, 36, is with the DPP, but the DPP is sending them back to the investigators.
“We are almost giving up. Our brother was kidnapped and today we are still wondering what to do. We want our brother back. We have suffered for long,” said Robert Gatimu a family member.
Gatimu recounted to the ordeal they have had to endure at the hands of police looking for the whereabouts of his brother Karuku.
“We have visited all relevant offices in Kenya. In each office we visit we receive different reports. We just want to get our brother back dead or alive. We know there are police officers trying to cover this matter and that’s why the matter is delaying,” said Gatimu.
Karuku went missing last July.
On the day he went missing, Gatimu said they were together in Thika, where Karuku was seeking medical attention at a local hospital.
The queue was long and Gatimu excused himself to go to his house. On his way, he visited a barber shop and when done, he tried to call his brother but the call did not go through.
“His phone just rang for a few minutes then later it went off. We have even tried to track his with no success,’ said Gatimu.
Gatimu said that later that evening, his friend told him that he had spotted Karuku’s car near Tatu City, and when they went there, they found the vehicle.
“We found the car’s radio broken but everything else was intact. My brother was not there,” he said.
They reached out to the police and later, his brother’s phone was found at the hands of some officers.
“How did the police get the phone if they had nothing to do with my brother?” he said.
Even worse, he said, the man’s phone showed the money he had in his M-Pesa account had been withdrawn, he said.
He said his family reported the matter to the police and investigations have been ongoing.
It later emerged that the men who allegedly took the money were arrested and arraigned. But the police officers alleged to have engaged them remain free.
“When we ask the Ruiru DCI, they say the file about the police officers who kidnapped my brother and even got the fraudsters to access his M-Pesa account, were already with the DPP. It is close to a year now,” he said.
Alarmingly, sources at the DPP say that the file submitted by DCI is faulty as it has incomplete information.
“The file had been returned to the police to investigate some grey points. We have not heard back from them,” the source said.
Gatimu said his brother had a strange run-in with the police three months prior to his disappearance when cops stopped him in town and bundled him into a waiting car only to free him, saying he was not the person they were looking for.
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