Officers from the DCI have arrived to exhume suspected remains of former Kerio Valley Development Authority managing director Eng Silvenus Tubei.
Tubei disappeared 12 years ago and the remains were discovered buried in a shallow grave a few metres away from his palatial home along a flower bed.
Tubei went missing from his home in Kabiemit village, Chepkurmum, Tumeiyo location in Keiyo south subcounty, in the morning of September 26, 2012.
The homicide officers are preparing the scene ahead of the exhumation today.
Hundreds of relatives and friends have turned up to witness the exercise.
Three days ago a gardener stumbled on a blanket buried while trying to dig out of the ground and discovered a complete adult human skeleton.
The clothes the deceased wore the morning he disappeared matched those inside the blanket and the skeleton, prompting a distress call by the family.
Albert Tubei, the deceased nephew, said they were almost sure the remains were those of their kin.
Officers from the DCI secured the area, marked it as a crime scene, and asked the family of Tubei to protect it until an order from the court was secured to have it exhumed.
The homicide officers secured a court order for today's exhumation.
The remains will be moved to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital morgue in Eldoret.
Investigators would be looking for DNA to confirm if it matches that of Tubei and establish the circumstances under which he lost his life.
