Trick Missing Ugandan MP Used To Avoid DCI

A Ugandan Member of Parliament, David Wandendeya Wakikona, who was reported missing in Nairobi before being found on Tuesday, October 11, had used public transport to avoid Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives who were looking for him.

Reports indicate that the Bududa District Member of Parliament (MP) had taken an Uber from the Kilimani area to the City Centre where he proceeded to Latema Road to book a Mololine matatu to Nakuru.

A senior detective privy to the matter noted that upon arrival in Nakuru, he boarded another vehicle, with his phone signal showing him in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County at around 2 pm. He then snaked through Bungoma County and crossed the border to Uganda where he continued on to the capital, Kampala.

The DCI officers had traced him to the border after a missing persons report was filed but were unable to get a hold of him as he had already crossed into the neighbouring country, a 650-kilometre journey of more than 12 hours by road.

Wakikona later surfaced in Kampala, revealing to the media that he was okay and there was no cause for alarm.

“I am here [in Kampala], you come to Parliament you will see me,” he told journalists.

The lawmaker arrived in Kenya on Monday, October 3 alongside his colleagues; Kween county MP, Abdi Fadhil Kisos Chemaswet, Bokora Constituency MP John Ngoya, Busiro MP Paul Busiro and Opio Emmanuel who is the clerk of Uganda’s National Assembly.

A guard manning the gate stated that Wakikona had asked him to get a cab to Tom Mboya Street as the point of destination.

Wakikona was reported missing by his colleague Talibet Kibet who was accompanied by Emmanuel Opio, with whom they had visited at Samura Court in the residential area.

“Wakikona had checked in at Samura Court along Argwings Kodhek road on October 3, 2022, together with his colleagues. Today at 0626 hours, he went to the main gate and told the guard to request Uber for him destination was at Tom Mboya street, and thereafter the Uber reg number KCS 466G arrived driven by Robert Wangombe picked him up and drove away,” a report filed at Kilimani Police Station read in part.

He is a member of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) whose leader is Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni.