Narc Kenya Party Leader Martha Karua has slammed President William Ruto’s administration over what she says is turning the country into an abduction paradise.
Karua supports her claims with the spate of abductions and murders over that started in the wake of the Gen Z protests against the administration in June last year.
The latest is the abduction of the ‘Mlolongo Four’, and the Thursday, January 30 revelation where two bodies of the missing four persons were found at Nairobi Funeral Home (formerly City Mortuary).
Karua is now calling for a national dialogue in a bid to find solutions on how to end the vice in the country.
“If one of us is not safe then none of us is safe. The time to act is now,” she says.
Karua says that since the anti-government protests last year, abductions have become the new epidemic in Kenya. Let us take a look at the abductions that shocked Kenyans over these period;
- July 23, 2024: 36 Ugandans, all members of FDC Katonga were abducted from a Kisumu hotel and deported to Uganda.
- September 2024: Wajir MCA Yusuf Hussein was abducted and has not been seen or heard of since.
- October 18, 2024: Seven Turkish nationals who were asylum seekers in Kenya were refouled back to Turkey against local and international law.
- October 26, 2024: Human Rights Defender Boniface Mwangi was abducted and later surfaced at a police station following public outcry.
- November 16, 2024: Ugandan leading Opposition leader Dr Kiiza Besigye alongside Mr Haji Obeid Lutale were abducted from Kenya and forcibly taken to Uganda.
- On various dates in December 2024, Peter Muteti, Benard Kavuli, Billy Mwangi, Gideon Kibet, Rony Kiplangat and Steve Kavingo were all abducted and have since been released except Steve Kavingo and Kelvin Muthoni. These particular abductions are subject of an ongoing court case.
- December 17, 2024: The Mlolongo 4 were abducted, with Justus Musyimi and Martin Mwau turning up dead at City morgue.
According to a December 27, 2024 report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), there was 13 more cases of abductions or enforced disappearances in the last three of last year, bringing to 82 the total cases since June 2024.
Seven (7) of the recent abduction cases were reported in the month of December 2024, KNCHR said.
