Tuesday July 15, 2025
The family of a missing Huduma Centre manager from Wajir County on Monday moved to court seeking orders to compel the Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, to produce him in court dead or alive.
Through lawyers Danstan Omari and Shadrack Wambui, the family is urging the High Court to compel the IG to produce Hussein Abdirahman, who disappeared on July 8, 2025.
“The applicant was last seen flanking the Public Service CS Geoffrey Ruku during his visit to Wajir County shortly before he went missing,” stated a family spokesperson.
The court was told that Mr Mohamed, who also serves as an Assistant County Commissioner posted in Wajir, is a national figure and a high-ranking public servant. His disappearance, the family argues, cannot simply be dismissed as a mystery without explanation.
The family contends there is a reasonable belief that Mr Mohamed is being held incommunicado by the police.
They say they are at a loss as to how their kin who was among the dignitaries welcoming CS Ruku could be whisked away to an unknown location without any trace.
In the habeas corpus application, Mr Omari urged the court to certify the matter as urgent and issue an order compelling authorities to produce the missing civil servant.
He is also seeking an order requiring police to either release Mr Mohamed or present him in court if he is suspected of having committed any offence.
“That this court certifies this matter as extremely urgent and grants production orders for Mohamed to be brought before the court, as his constitutional rights to freedom of movement and association have been unjustifiably and arbitrarily violated,” Omari stated.
The Attorney General, Inspector General and Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) have been named as respondents in the case.
“If a senior civil servant of the rank of Assistant County Commissioner can disappear just like that, who is safe now?” asked lawyer Wambui.
He added that Mr Mohamed was simply going about his duties as Huduma Centre manager in Wajir and had no known enemies or personal feuds that could explain his disappearance.
The lawyers are also requesting that the case file be transferred from Wajir to Nairobi.
The court is expected to issue directions as prayed in the petition.