Masengeli on the spot in case of alleged abduction of Wajir MCA

Acting Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli has been thrust into the limelight again following a second case filed at the Milimani Law Courts involving the disappearance of Wajir MCA Yussuf Hussein.

Yussuf's family has asked the courts to compell the IG and DCI to produce him in court.

Through advocate Danstan Omari, Abdikadir Ahmed, who has sued on Yussuf's behalf, says the latter has been missing from South B Estate since the night of September 13, 2024.

Ahmed claims his cousin was forcefully removed from a taxi that he had ordered from the said estate at 8PM on the said date.

"His whereabouts remain unknown and unaccounted for, and there is reasonable fear that he was abducted by officers attached to the IG and DCI," he said.

Ahmed explains that the two have refused to allow his family to visit him in custody and at the same time, refused to present him before a court of law to answer to any charge.

Just last week, Masengeli was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison for disobeying court orders.

He had been summoned to court seven times to come and shed light over the disappearance of three men in Kitengela on August 19, 2024.

He has since appealed his sentence, and the whereabouts of the three remain unknown.

In the present case, Ahmed says nobody has accounted for the whereabouts of Yussuf despite there being two OBs entered in regard to his disappearance.

"The driver of the taxi has sworn an affidavit and stated that he reported the incident and obtained an OB as to what he saw on the said date that evening," Ahmed said.

Ahmed states that they met as a family at Makadara police station, where they were told that Yussuf's phone was in their custody as the incident had been reported by the taxi driver who picked him up.

"Unless this court intervenes and compels the respondents to produce Yussuf before this Court, we will continue to live with anxiety and stress caused by the forced disappearance and abduction of our loved one,"  their documents read in part.