•Police who visited the scene said he seemed to have been tortured to death.
•The family of the deceased and police from Embakasi visited the mortuary and identified the body.
Missing Embakasi East Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission returning officer has been found dead.
Daniel Mbolu Musyoka's body was found in a thicket on Monday in Mariko near Amboseli National Park.
It was taken to a local morgue.
Police who visited the scene said he seemed to have been tortured to death.
The family of the deceased and police from Embakasi visited the mortuary and identified the body.
The killers and motive are yet to be established.
On Tuesday, plans were underway to move the body to Nairobi.
Detectives visited the local mortuary on Tuesday where the body had been taken.
A police officer aware of the probe said they hope to unravel the truth about the murder.
Loitoktok police boss Kipruto Ruto said the body was identified by his sisters Mary Mwikali and Ann Mboya at the Loitokitok subcounty mortuary.
The police boss said the body was discovered early on Monday in Kilombero forest at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro by herders.
The body was reportedly dumped into the valley of a dry seasonal river.
The area is a notorious dumping site for murder victims.
The police boss said he was naked and his clothes were found at the edge of the valley.
Musyoka went missing on August 11 and a missing person report was filed.
He was at the East African School of Aviation tallying centre when he disappeared at 9:45am.
Earlier, police officers obtained CCTV footage showing the final moments of Musyoka.
The footage was under scrutiny by the cybercrime unit and police insisted that Musyoka was safe even though his whereabouts remained a puzzle.
When he made the announcement, IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati said they had tried to reach him but to no avail.
“Musyoka's family and the commission have been trying to reach him without success. A report of a missing person has been made at Embakasi police station,” Chebukati said Monday.
He said other commission staff had been harassed and intimidated.
The deceased’s wife Tabitha Mbolu and daughter Prudence Mbolu had the last phone conversation with him before he went missing.
Prudence told journalists that her father’s colleagues at IEBC called her after they failed to reach the missing officer on phone.
The police said they had been looking for him in vain.
Different teams had been dispatched to comb through the city and pursue different leads to trace Musyoka who had not slept for three days after the vote tallying process began.
A senior officer said all candidates in the just concluded polls are persons of interest in the case.
They want to check the conversations he had with any of the candidates or their agents before the elections.
Police said there have been claims made on various parties and they are trying to confirm that.
The claims include those that he may have been taken out by parties that were not happy with the way he handled the polls yet he had made an earlier deal.
Former IEBC Commissioner Roselyn Akombe sent a message of solidarity to the family of the deceased.
Akombe tweeted on Saturday morning saying she was praying that Daniel Musyoka is safe and reunited with his family.
She said she was aware of the struggles her former staff and colleagues were facing during the tallying of presidential elections.
“Keeping my former staff and colleagues in my thoughts and prayers during these tough times. I know what you are going through. Bon courage,” she said.
Akombe fled to New York and resigned in the run-up to the 2017 presidential repeat election, saying she felt unsafe, and that could not hold a credible election.
The former commissioner last month took to her Twitter handle to commemorate her late colleague Chris Musando, who was murdered five years ago, days before the election.
Musando, who served as the electoral commission’s Information Technology manager, went missing on Friday, July 28, 2017.
His body was found in a thicket in Kikuyu, alongside the remains of a female companion who was identified as Carol Ngumbu.
“Five years since you were handed to the brutal killers to thwart efforts of delivering a credible election in Kenya. Though your betrayers have been rewarded and electoral integrity remains in peril, justice will be served, no matter how long it takes,” Akombe said.
Edited by Kiilu Damaris