Police have issued a statement following the alleged abduction of anti-corruption activist Mildred Atieno Owiso on Tuesday morning.
According to the police, the claims of her abduction by the victim and her friends' did not add up.
The police noted that in as much as Ms Owiso sent a distress call to her close friends at 8 am on Tuesday alleging that she had been picked by some people and asked to switch off her phone, there was no record that she was booked in any of the police stations in the city.
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Additionally, the police stated that her WhatsApp was active and online at several intervals during the time that she claimed she was ordered to switch off her phone.
When the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders, in which she is a member, sent a press statement alleging that Ms Owiso's phone was off, she was online on WhatsApp at 12:34 pm.
However, a press invite sent to the media at 5 pm, affirmed that she had been traced and that she was traumatized but not physically assaulted.
"She says she was abducted by men in civilian who were in a white saloon car. They took her to a place near Syokimau and interrogated her about the planned protest and who is funding it," the statement read.
The police are also questioning the authenticity of the statement issued as they tracked the history of her phone and noted that the signals were only traced between Umoja 1 and Tena estates and the Central Business District.
The authorities also disclosed that the number she uses and which was circulated by her friends is registered under the name "Walter Ogadho Lusi."
The activist, who is behind #BuyerBeAwareke campaign, is also the whistle-blower in the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) rape allegations, the Olive Gardens breastfeeding ban saga and several others.
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