The family of Joseph Wanjeri, a police officer is in distress as the search for their kin grows cold.
According to the family, the officer was on duty in Kapedo when he was reported missing. He was in the area for a peacekeeping operation designed to neutralise bandits who have been reigning terror in the area.
The officer was attached to Lodwar Police Station, Turkana before he was sent on the mission.
Reportedly, the officer had earlier been sick and sought transport money from his superiors to go to the hospital. The request was however declined.
His family has called upon the government to help locate their kin as other officers sent on the mission had returned home.
"We are always at the Police station asking about his whereabouts and each time the officers promise that they are looking for him," the wife complained.
She questioned how else to ask when her husband was on duty when the incident occurred.
One of the officials at the station revealed that the search mission may take up to seven years leaving the family with more questions than answers.
The family is left questioning whether their kin was still alive or had passed on while in Kapedo.
An activist group in the county gave the police 14 days to find the missing officer.
Cases of missing police officers are not new in the country as some disappear never to be seen again while others are found dead.
In September, a police officer went missing from a police station with government-issued guns in Nyeri County.
A family from Turkana East was also left looking for their kin who disappeared while attached to the Napeitom patrol base.
He went missing barely six days after being posted to the station.
