The family of businessman Bashir Mohammed who was found dead on May 22, 2021, has written a letter to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) poking holes at suspicious activities by police probing the murder.
Bashir was reported missing on May 16, 2021 and his vehicle, the make of a Range Rover, was found burnt down in Ngong forest. On May 22, 2021, the family identified his body at the Kerugoya Level 5 Hospital.
In the letter penned by their lawyer Charles Madowo to the DPP, the family is seeking to know the circumstances that led to the deceased's disappearance and death.
They indicated that they had received word of an officer who visited the mortuary on May 17, 2021 and took Bashir's fingerprints, even before the family had identified the body.
“The family was further informed that on May 18, 2021, an officer returned to the mortuary and identified the deceased as Bashir Mohamud Mohamed. His name was accordingly registered and marked on his person," reads the letter.
The businessman's family are wondering why it took the police six days to ask them to identify the body despite the wide publication of his disappearance.
They are also probing why the police took his fingerprints privately before family members could identify his body.
Lastly, the family seeks to know why they were called in to identify the body while it had already been identified.
The family wants a public inquest into his death conducted.
Before his death, Bashir is said to have won two tenders worth Ksh2.53 billion.
Madowo, Bashir's lawyer, explained that there had been a slight row between the deceased's company and another construction firm over the Ksh729 million tender awarded by the government of Kenya.
However, the issue was resolved by the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA).
According to an autopsy conducted by government pathologist Johansen Oduor at Umash funeral home, Nairobi County, Bashir was tortured before being strangled to death.
