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SAD: Kenyan Electoral Official found dead after missing for days

The body of Daniel Musyoka, the returning officer for Embakasi East, in Nairobi was on Monday evening found lying lifeless near the Tanzania border.

A Photo Collection of IBEC Official Mr Daniel Mbolu Musyoka, who disappeared while at work in Nairobi on Wednesday last week. PHOTO | POOL

NAIROBI, KENYA: The body of Daniel Musyoka, the returning officer for Embakasi East, in Nairobi, was on Monday evening found lying lifeless near the Tanzania border just hours after the controversial declaration of William Ruto as the President-Elect of Kenya.

Musyoka was last seen on August 13 at 9.45 am shortly after he had reported for duty at his station, The East African School of Aviation in Nairobi.

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Security camera footage acquired by police shows that Musyoka, who appeared relaxed with no sign of concern for anything, according to detectives, left the tallying center and walked toward a nearby bus station. The camera footage further shows that Musyoka was not being followed by a car or person.

On Monday evening, police in Loitoktok, Kajiado South sub-county were alerted over the presence of the body of a middle-aged man in a forest, 230 kilometres south of Nairobi.

According to Loitokitok police boss Kipruto Ruto, the body was identified by his sisters Mary Mwikali and Ann Mboya at the Loitokitok sub-county mortuary.

The Police boss said the body was naked, though the man’s clothes a tracksuit and a Maasai suuka were found at the edge of the valley. There were visible signs of struggle and torture on the victim’s body, he added.

His wife, Tabitha, said that the family had searched unsuccessfully for him since he disappeared including hospitals, pharmacies, and even the morgue, but to no effect. The family quoted police saying that his mobile phone signal disappeared an hour after he went missing, having been detected in Mihang’o, in Utawala-Nairobi, around 10 am.

“The day he disappeared, I tried calling him but he did not answer. I was later told by his cousin, who lives in Utawala, that he was missing,” said Tabitha.

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