Samuel Kamau, who was reported missing on Thursday last week, has been found jailed at the Buruburu police station.
Officers said he had been arrested on Tuesday for robbery with violence and was to be taken to court on Thursday.
Police officers who had recorded the arrest contacted Kamau’s wife informing her he was being detained in Buruburu.
Police learned of the case when they attended an outreach event by the Missing Voices coalition on Wednesday evening.
“I have gone to all the police stations around and the officers say they did not arrest him," Waithera Macharia, Kamau's mother, said in Kayole on Tuesday.
The case came to light when Waithera spoke at an event marking the International Day for Victims of Enforced Disappearances on August 30.
“On Thursday last week, Kamau left his house for work but he was picked up by plainclothes police officers at Kayole Junction stage,” his mother told the crowd.
“We have not found him or his body. I plan to go to Ruai, just to check if he was dumped in the sewerage treatment plant.”
The officers who were attending the event noted the case, leading to the revelation that Kamau was being held in police cells.
Police officers at Buruburu said Kamau was arrested on Wednesday in Soweto area, Kayole, where he had been hiding.
However, Kamau told his lawyers he had been arrested on Thursday August 20 and was being detained at DO police post in Kayole. The officers did not disclose to him the reason for his arrest, he said.
“He was transferred to Buruburu police station yesterday and was booked under OB 31/31/08 by an officer attached to DCI, Buruburu,” rights activist Perpetua Kariuki said in Kayole.
Samuel is one of the 69 people who have disappeared in the past three years, according to data by the Missing Voices coalition.
Missing Voices recorded 10 cases of enforced disappearances in 2019, 22 in 2020 and 36 in 2021 in anupward trend.
Most of the cases were reported in Mombasa followed by Nairobi.
(Edited by V.Graham)
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