The Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, and the Director of Criminal Investigations, Mohamed Amin, could face arrest after a Nairobi court was asked to issue arrest warrants over the disappearance of Peter Mwenda Mbijiwe, a security analyst and former KDF officer.
Through lawyer Evans Ondieki, Mbijiwe's family accused the two of defying a court order issued on October 28, 2025 directing the police to produce Mbijiwe "dead or alive", and lamented that the matter had dragged on for over four years and turned into a circus.
“The police have been detaining the subject incommunicado for four years. I propose that you issue a warrant of arrest against the IG because they have failed to comply with the order and have not even appeared in court,” Ondieki told the court.
During the mention of the case on Tuesday, November 11, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) informed the court that they had only received the case file on Tuesday morning and were awaiting further instructions.
The court, expressing concern over the prolonged delay, adjourned the matter to November 19, 2025, for further directions, warning that continued defiance of court orders would not be tolerated, a matter that would put the two police bosses at loggerheads with the courts.
However, despite the family’s request, and the court's expressions, it declined to issue the warrants of arrest pending the next hearing on Wednesday next week.
Mbijiwe, a popular security commentator and ex-soldier who served as a pilot with the Kenya Air Force, went missing in 2021 under mysterious circumstances after reportedly travelling from Meru to Nairobi.
His car was later found abandoned near Tatu City in Kiambu County, without a trace of him.
At the same time, his family maintains that he was abducted by security agents, a claim police have repeatedly denied.
For four years later, his mother, Jane Gatwiri M'ithinji, has made public appeals to trace her son’s whereabouts, accusing authorities of cover-up.
Reports allege that Mwenda was last seen in Roysambu in the company of unknown individuals in an unmarked vehicle, believed to be officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
At the time of his disappearance, Mwenda was fighting a court case where he had been accused of fraudulently acquiring Ksh150,000 from a man whom he had promised to secure a job for at the United Nations (UN).
