High Court orders IG Kanja to produce missing Wajir MCA within 14 days

High Court Judge Chacha Mwita has issued orders directing Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja to disclose the whereabouts of missing Wajir Member of County Assembly Yussuf Hussein Ahmed within 14 days.

According to court documents seen by Citizen Digital on Wednesday, Justice Mwita also directed the petitioners to serve the respondents within seven days.

In the case, the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), Wajir Governor Ahmed Abdullahi and the MCA are listed as first, second and third petitioners respectively.

The police IG, the DCI, the DPP and the Attorney General are the respondents in the case while the Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) is an interested party.

“An order is hereby issued directing the Inspector General of Police to within 14 days disclose the whereabouts of the 3rd Respondent, Yussuf Hussein Ahmed,” read the documents.

“Respondents and Interested Parties will have 7 days after service to file their written submissions also not exceeding 10 pages each.”

The Dela Ward MCA who went missing more than five months ago is said to have been abducted on September 13, 2024, along Enterprise Road in Nairobi's Industrial Area.

A month after his disappearance, a body was retrieved in Lake Yahud which was believed to be the missing MCA.

Family members and locals thronged the morgue to identify the body that was badly tortured and decomposed but two independent DNA tests later determined that the body was not that of the MCA.

The development resulted in the 47 County Assemblies threatening adjournment of House sittings if their colleague was not found.

The MCAs claimed he was taken in by the State for unknown reasons. Just four days prior to his disappearance, he had complied with a summons from security agencies in Wajir.