A missing detective has caused panic to his family after he disappeared without a trace.
Francis Oyaro, an intelligence officer attached to the Kenya Wildlife Service(KWS), has been missing for close to a month now.
According to his wife, Veronica Osore, she last spoke to Oyaro on August 28, who was on his way back to Nakuru from Marsabit National Park where he is posted. However, Oyaro did not make it home and two days after the call, his phone went unanswered.
"He left in the morning at around 7 am and informed me he was approaching Nanyuki. I expected him home at 6pm, he did not show up," she narrated.
Osore stated that she had since tried to trace her spouse through his colleagues and the police but all in vain. The 45-year-old was nowhere to be seen or heard from.
When she phoned his immediate boss, Kitavi Kaloki, his boss was shocked that Oyaro had not arrived home. He added that he had granted the detective a few days off as he had requested.
Kaloki informed Osore that her husband hiked a lift on a KWS vehicle that had a driver and two other female colleagues.
The other occupants who safely arrived in Nairobi claimed that the officer alighted the vehicle at Nanyuki.
The claims were confirmed by a person who claimed to personally know the detective and insisted he spotted him in the town.
However, his next statement was what made her heart sink.
“They snatched his phone. He asked them to explain why they were trailing him yet they had met the previous day. They took his bag and led him into their car," the anonymous caller narrated.
The caller explained that as they were aboard a matatu heading to Nakuru, they were flagged down at Naro Moru by people he believed were known to the detective.
Dressed in civilian clothes, the occupants in the black saloon car flagged down the matatu and ordered Oyaro to alight after presenting identification to the driver.
The family hinted foul play on their kin whom they stated was in a sensitive department.
Marsabit National Park senior warden John Wambua stated that the matter was reported to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) that is probing the matter.
