Businessman Who Worked With IEBC During Elections Goes Missing

A Nairobi-based businessman who is alleged to have worked with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) during the just-concluded August elections has been reported missing.

A police report seen by Viral Tea from Kilimani police station revealed that the businessman vanished while coming from his office along Ngong Road.

His wife disclosed that the owner of an Information Technology (IT) company, was working with the IEBC temporarily as an IT consultant before his disappearance, which she reported at the police station on Thursday, August 18.

"It was reported by one Flora Alouch that yesterday 18/8/2022 at about 2000hrs her husband one Japhet Dibo an adult male who owns Dial Africa an information technology company located along Ngong road Kism building went missing.

"She alleges that the said man was working with the IEBC temporarily during the just concluded general elections as an ''IT'' consultant and that yesterday he left the said Kism towers with an unknown man and he never showed up again," read the police report in part.

It further stated that he was seen last wearing a light blue shirt and navy blue trousers and he's of medium built.

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Kilimani was assigned to investigate the businessman's disappearance.

The disappearance comes amidst ongoing investigations into the disappearance and death of IEBC Returning Officer, Daniel Mbolu Musyoka. CCTV footage retrieved by detectives placed a bodaboda rider and an unidentified woman as people of interest who were in conversation with Musyoka before he vanished.

The woman approached him as he walked past the CCTV cameras outside an entertainment joint in Tassia, Embakasi East. The boda boda rider, who was with a pillion passenger, also engaged with him before he left.

Musyoka was also reported to have left the tallying centre at around 9.00 am. His bodyguard had revealed that he had excused himself to make a phone call, only to never see him again.

Security guards further revealed that he used the back door to exit the tallying centre at the constituency and walk on foot. As per the footage, Musyoka was spotted outside the East African School of Aviation between 10.30 am and 10.39 am on the day he was reported missing.

The pillion passenger, who happened to be his colleague, a clerk who was working at a polling station, had asked Musyoka where he was going, to which Musyoka responded by stating that he was going to buy some medicine. Meanwhile, he was busy returning several WhatsApp calls.

Detectives are probing how he went to Church Road from the East African School of Aviation in a short time, given that the distance between the two was only 1.2 kilometres.

Musyoka was never seen again afterwards until his body was found at the Amboseli National Park on Monday, August 15.