He was a political science student at a university in the city.
The family has stopped searching for the vibrant young man as unknown people have been calling them and issuing threats.
The calls started at the end of June when it was apparent he was missing and searches in police stations, hospitals and mortuaries yielded no results.
“I made a post on social media about his disappearance and immediately the calls started coming. My sickly mother got strange calls warning her to have me stop making inflammatory statements about the government or she would have more sorrow,” he said.
It is the same story for BM, WA, MWA, RNH who requested not to be named as they are still looking for their relatives, but are facing what they claim to be harassment and death threats from police.
“My sister was a fashion student in one of the colleges in Nairobi. She has been missing since July and I strongly suspect she is dead. I suspect her body was in Kware and police killed her,” BM claimed.
The tales by the people the Star reached out to, paint a picture of the agony families are going through.
Some allege that security agents are suppressing the voice of those claiming their loved ones are still missing.
Human Rights Watch boss Otsieno Namwaya told the Star the number of those still missing could be hundreds.
He said his organisation has been investigating cases of missing persons, with those not yet found classified as enforced disappearance, resolved ones classified as arbitrary arrests and the deaths characterised as extrajudicial killings.
“We believe that up to 132 people or more are still missing from the protests. The state has used security agencies to silence families from coming forward,” Namwaya said.
“What they do is that once
someone comes forward to search
for a missing loved one, the security agents target that whole family with threats, surveillance and
other aggressive methods to keep
them silent.”
