High Court Orders Police to Produce Missing 68-Year-Old Businessman Dead or Alive
"The subject, Enock Chebon Chelimo, to be produced in Court on November 17 2026, and in the meantime the Applicant's Advocate on record by virtue of Article 50 (2)(g) to be allowed communication, consultation, access and contact Law Enforcement agencies on the whereabouts and safety of the applicant," the judge ordered.
Through lawyer Danstan Omari, the family wants the court to order the police and other government agencies to immediately disclose his whereabouts and produce him before court, dead or alive.
In an urgent application filed at the Milimani High Court Criminal Division, the family claims that Chelimo had been receiving threats from local authorities demanding that he surrender a firearm he allegedly knew nothing about and did not own.
His son, Bernard Chepyator Chebon, who swore the supporting affidavit, said the family tried to resolve the matter after repeated threats and visits by security officers.
According to Chebon, his father called him on October 25 and asked him to pick him up from his rural home in Bartolimo, where he had been harvesting maize.
During their journey back to Marigat, Chelimo reportedly informed him about calls demanding that he surrender an AK-47 rifle.
The following day, they allegedly visited the local chief, William Chebii Bargeshan, to report the threats.
The chief allegedly advised them to look for a firearm matching the description given by the officers to avoid further raids at their home.
Chebon claims the family subsequently mobilised relatives and friends and raised KSh400,000, which they handed to the chief on October 27 to assist in finding the firearm.
However, the situation allegedly escalated on October 31 when officers arrived at their home at approximately 11pm.
“My father was accosted from his house by officers from the Special Operations Group and yanked away to Marigat, in the escort of three cream Land Cruisers, carrying heavily armed men with sophisticated weaponry and ammunition,” Bernard stated in his affidavit.
He further claimed that the family was left without information about his father’s whereabouts despite making several reports to the police and administrative authorities.
The application also contains disturbing allegations surrounding an alleged attempt to surrender a firearm on November 4.
Chebon claims that his uncle, David Chelimo, agreed to have the firearm registered in his name to facilitate its surrender.
However, when he demanded that officers take him along to Marigat to establish his father’s whereabouts, he was allegedly assaulted, threatened with a shooting and had his car keys confiscated.
He further alleges that his uncle and the local chief were badly beaten and abandoned by the roadside.
The family is asking the court to compel the Inspector General and the Cabinet Secretary for Interior to personally appear and give sworn explanations regarding Chelimo’s whereabouts and the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.
The family maintains that Chelimo has never owned or possessed an illegal firearm and wants investigations into whether local administrators could have misused the ongoing disarmament operations to settle personal differences.
