Digital Strategist Dennis Itumbi has opened up on events surrounding his alleged abduction and torture, weeks after the incident occurred in December 2021.
In a post on his official social media accounts on Thursday, January 13, the ally of Deputy President William Ruto recounted how he was ambushed after leaving a barbershop in Thindigua along Kiambu Road.
Itumbi claimed that he was waylaid by six rogue police officers who were undercover.
The abductors reportedly ditched the car they used to pick him up and switched vehicles afterward.
"It was raining heavily as they drove off in two double cabins. A black one and a white one. The hit squad that operates in fear of being seen, being exposed, or being pointed out in public, had long dropped the Premio that had picked me at Thindigua, outside a barbershop," he recounted.
Additionally, Itumbi revealed the conversations he had with his abductors stating that he sought to find out the cause of his abduction and the perpetrators.
The digital strategist divulged that he was handcuffed and threatened to change his political stance. He added that he was roughed up with crude weapons and finally dropped off in a forest.
Prior to driving off, the six men reportedly threatened to take his life if he screamed or called for help. Itumbi narrated that he was stripped and left to die in the cold, but a bodaboda rider, Boniface Makokha, who turned out to be a good samaritan, rescued him.
'Pain and being naked were no longer issues, survival was. After a long painful walk, I got to a junction, more of a roundabout. As a naked man, I knew, I would have a tough time stopping any car, at night. So I shot my luck at boda bodas," he stated.
He recounted that Makokha gave him a bedsheet, bought him a soda, and rushed him to the hospital.
On December 24, 2021, police spokesperson, Bruno Shioso, assured the public that they had launched investigations into the matter.
Itumbi, however, warned the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) against making frequent visits to the hospital to seek his statement, adding that he would reveal further details of his abduction at a function in February 2022.
