Judge Demands Police Produce Missing Wajir Assistant County Commissioner

The High Court has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to trace and produce in court Hussein Abdirahaman Mohammed, the Assistant County Commissioner of Wajir County, who has been missing since July 8, 2025.

Milimani High Court Judge Chacha Mwita directed the IG and the DCI to trace and locate Mohammed, then produce him in court on or before September 16, 2025.

Justice Mwita gave the orders following submissions by lawyers Shadrack Wambui, Danstan Omari, and Hussein Abdullahi that Mohammed is one of the senior government employees who cannot disappear without a trace.

“This is the first case where a senior government employee who sits in the county security committee, issues passports and national identity cards as he also doubles as the Wajir Huduma Center Manager, vanishes without a trace,” Omari told Judge Mwita.

Wambui said Mohammed disappeared in thin air a day after receiving the Cabinet Secretary (CS) in charge of Public Service, Geoffrey Ruku, on July 7, 2025.

The judge heard Mohammed was scheduled to proceed to his annual leave after hosting Ruku,

“On the material day, Mohammed took his children to school, then drove to his workplace and has never returned to his home to date from July 8, 2025,” Wambui informed the judge.

“Both the Attorney General and the IG owe a duty to this court and everyone to avail Mohammed before this court, dead or alive,” Wambui submitted.

He urged the judge to compel the top security apparatus to hand over Mohammed to the court.

“The AG and IG need to restore public confidence that they are safe by tracing and producing Mohammed in court,” Omari stated.

He added that it is the constitutional duty of the police to ensure everybody is safe and “it is heart rending for police to claim they do not know where one is.”

The lawyers urged the judge to allow the family of Mohammed’s application for a Habeas Corpus writ to produce him in court.

However, the AG, through a state counsel, urged the judge to dismiss the application as the production orders sought can only be issued when a suspect is truly held in police custody.

“The county security agencies in Wajir have not been able to trace Mohammed. As such, the orders can only be issued where a suspect is being detained in police custody,” the judge heard.

The state counsel representing the AG, IG, and the DCI said Section 389 of the Penal Code about abducted persons or those held in custody requires courts to order such suspects to be presented to court.

The judge further heard that Section 109 of the Evidence Act places the burden on a petitioner seeking production of a detained suspect.

In the present case, the judge heard that Mohammed is not in the custody of police and therefore impressed upon to dismiss the application.

In a brief ruling, the judge ordered police to locate the whereabouts of Mohammed and present him to any court on or before September 16, 2025.

The family of a missing Wajir County Huduma Center manager moved to court seeking orders to compel the Inspector General of police, Douglas Kanja, to produce him in court.

Through Wambui, Omari, and Hussein, the family of the vanished senior civil servant is urging the High Court to compel the IG to produce Hussein Abdirhaman to court dead or alive.

“The applicant was last seen flanking public service CS during his visit to the county of Wajir shortly before he went missing on July 8,” stated the family spokesperson.

The family contends that there is a reasonable belief that Mohammed is being held or detained incommunicado by the police.