The daughter of missing Embakasi East IEBC Returning Officer, Daniel Musyoka Mbolu, has revealed the final phone conversation he had with his wife, Tabitha Mbolu before he vanished on Thursday, August 11.
According to Prudence Mbolu, Musyoka's daughter who spoke to The Standard, her father's phone call was disrupted as he seemed busy with his work at the time. She affirmed that the phone call occurred 24 hours prior to his disappearance.
This was the last time that the family heard from Musyoka before he went missing.
Prudence also revealed her final conversation with her father on WhatsApp, intimating that she sent an encouraging text in preparation for the electoral exercise.
"Praying for you as the D-Day and counting days approach. You got this," Mbolu stated.
"Thank you my dear," Musyoka responded shortly after.
She added that their attempts to reach him on Thursday, August 11, were futile as his phone was switched off.
"On Thursday, August 11, my mother tried to reach him on phone but he was unavailable. We did not give too much thought to it given that IEBC officials were busy tallying the votes."
"In the afternoon, however, we expected to see him announcing the results for Embakasi East Constituency but it was someone different and not him. Upon seeing that, we tried calling him again but he was unavailable," she stated.
Prudence further stated that her uncle was the first one to be called by her father's colleagues who sought to know his whereabouts.
"My uncle was told that Musyoka had been unreachable since 9:30 am on Thursday. Colleagues at the tallying centre were looking for him and could not find him,” she noted.
Preliminary investigations from the police had revealed that Musyoka's phone went off five minutes after he had arrived at the tallying centre.
The search for the IEBC official has been extended to the whole of Nairobi county and Nakuru county as police speed up investigations in order to locate the person of interest.
