Family Demands Answers After Wajir Official Vanishes Post-CS Visit
"If a senior civil servant of the rank of the Assistant County Commissioner can disappear just like that who is safe now?" Wambui asked.
The family of a missing Wajir County Huduma Center manager has moved to court seeking orders to compel the Inspector General of police, Douglas Kanja, to produce him in court.
Through lawyers Danstan Omari and Shadrack Wambui are urging the High Court to compel the IG to produce Hussein Abdirhaman to court dead or alive.
Mohammed disappeared on July 8, 2025, one day after an official function presided over by the Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku,
“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 court has been told that Mohamed, who is also an assistant County Commissioner posted to Wajir county, is a national figure and a high-ranking public servant, hence he cannot be taunted to vanish mysteriously and without a trace.
The family contends that there is a reasonable belief that Mohammed is being held or detained incommunicado by the police.
They say that they are at a loss as to how their kin who sat among the dignitaries welcoming the CS to Wajir county was whisked to an unknown and undisclosed location.
In the habeas corpus application, Omari is urging the court to certify the case as urgent and order the production in court of the missing civil servant.
He is also seeking orders to compel police to release Mohamed or present him in a court of law to face legal action if he has committed any offence.
“That this honourable court certify this matter as extremely urgent and grant production orders of Mohamed before court as his rights to freedom of movement and association has been legally, unjustifiably and arbitrarily been violated,” says Omari.
Those listed as defendants in the case are the Attorney General, the IG, and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Omari and Wambui say efforts by the family to trace the whereabouts of their kin have become futile,
“If a senior civil servant of the rank of the Assistant County Commissioner can disappear just like that who is safe now?” Wambui asked.
Wambui added that Mohamed was going about his duties as the manager of the Huduma Center in Wajir with no feuds or enemies or assailants who had ill intentions against him and intended to waylay him for whatever reason.
The lawyers are further requesting the file to be transferred from Wajir to Nairobi.
The family is disturbed and apprehensive about his safety.
The court is expected to give directions as prayed in the petition.
