The family of Mombasa businessman Abdulhakim Saggar has welcomed his release but says he is still traumatised and needs time to recover.
Saggar was abducted and detained for one month incommunicado and released on the wee hours of Sunday.
His brother Faris Saggar on Monday said they were happy to see him. He requested privacy, saying Saggar is so traumatised that he needs time to recuperate.
Saggar was allegedly arrested by officers from the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit on August 18 on suspicion of engaging in terrorism activities.
He told family members that he was released at around 2am on Sunday in a secluded area along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway.
He walked for around an hour before coming across a boda boda rider who told him he was in Voi.
"They (abductors) gave him Sh2,000 as fare to get home,” Faris said, adding that his brother arrived in Mombasa at around 6.30am.
The family then rushed him to an undisclosed hospital for a medical checkup.
"We still do not know why he was arrested and are afraid of what might happen in the future," Faris said.
Mvita MP Abdulswamad Nassir condemned the abduction, terming it inhumane.
"Why take someone in Old Town in broad daylight, hold him for a month incommunicado, then release him in the dead of the night in a forest at risk of attacks from wild animals? That is inhumanity of the highest order," Nassir said.
Mombasa Senator Mohammed Faki said police violated the law in the arrest and detention of Saggar. He said there are many questions whose answers the family needs to get closure.
"The family has to know why he was arrested and not charged for a whole month," Faki said.
At the weekend, according to human rights organisation Haki Africa, three people who had been abducted were released in an almost similar fashion.
Prof Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdiswamad, a Muslim scholar abducted on September 8 in Nairobi, was freed a week later on Sunday morning.
He has now reunited with his family.
Another victim, 36-year-old Josiah Gathungu who went missing on August 31, was found by his family on Saturday, almost 20 days after he went missing.
Cases of enforced disappearances have become rampant on the Coast and Muslim leaders have warned the trend may not augur well with residents, especially as the 2022 General Election nears.
On Saturday, ODM leader Raila Odinga said the enforced disappearances with no answers provided by state security agencies are a manifestation of the culture of impunity.
"We must find new and legal ways of addressing crime," Raila said at Wild Waters Complex in Mombasa.
He said extrajudicial killings are like a monster that needs to be slain before it gets bigger.
