The family of a GSU officer is in agony over the disappearance of their kin in State House, Mombasa nine years after the unsolved mystery.
Constable Jorim Odhiambo of Force Number 82367 is reported to have gone missing from the presidential abode on August 7, 2010.
According to reports by various media houses at the time, Odhiambo was to be on sentry duty before his disappearance.
Two weeks after the GSU officer went missing an inquiry file was opened at Mombasa Central police station. However, not much information was availed after.
Police records show that he was last seen on Moi Avenue in Mombasa having drinks with his friends at Salambo club.
A colleague of his, Stephen Odinga was questioned but he denied knowledge of Odhiambo's whereabouts.
His mother, 65-year-old Mary Abang’a remains hopeful that her son will return to their home in Maramba village in Rarieda, Siaya county.
In an interview with the Star, Abang'a refused to accept that her son had passed away because she hadn't gotten any information on his whereabouts for almost a decade.
“I've never felt that my son is dead. He has not ‘sent a dream’ to me or any of my relatives. Let the government tell us where he is, whether dead or alive.
“Even if he was killed in a fight with criminals, let us be told because we've suffered for a very long time,” she stated.
Odhiambo's wife, Joselyne Nanjala, still reeling from the officer's disappearance maintained that she would never stop waiting for him to come back.
“I still pray that my husband will come back,” she stated adding that their daughter who was 18 months old at the time of his disappearance was not in class 5.
The matter of Odhiambo's disappearance has been raised in parliament on several occasions. The first time was forwarded by former MP Nicholas Gumbo on October 13, 2010 who asked then Internal Security Assistant minister Orwa Ojode to give a conclusive answer on the matter.
On February 26, 2019, Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo questioned Interior Chief Administrative Secretary Patrick Ole Ntutu on the matter who stated that they would most likely invoke the Evidence Act stating that a person who goes missing for over seven years is presumed dead.
“Call data from his Odhiambo's phone did not yield information of evidential value and therefore, the file is still open,” Ntutu stated.
