‘ICC man’: Family wants answers
What you need to know:
- Meshack’s body was found floating in River Yala in Nandi County, almost a week after he was abducted from his Sugoi home in Uasin Gishu County.
- Meshack was abducted on December 28, outside Turbo Dispensary, where he had taken his child.
- Human Rights Activist Ken Wafula on Monday claimed there was a hit-squad sponsored by people connected to the government that was eliminating ICC witnesses.
Police have been accused of failing to investigate the death of a man said to have been an ICC witness.
The family of Meshack Yebei on Monday said they were disappointed with the laxity of Turbo and Eldoret police in unravelling his mysterious death.
Meshack’s body was found floating in River Yala in Nandi County, almost a week after he was abducted from his Sugoi home in Uasin Gishu County.
“Since we found the body in the mortuary, we are yet to receive any feedback from the police,” Mr Nixon Yebei, a brother of the deceased, told the Nation.
He called on officers at Turbo and Eldoret police stations to unmask the people behind the killing that has sparked an outcry from human rights activists and political leaders.
The complaints came as Eldoret West Police chief Smollests Munyianzi expressed doubts over the identity of the alleged ICC witness.
Meshack’s fingerprints, he said, had been forwarded to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Nairobi for further scrutiny.
“The body has been moved from the Kapsabet District Hospital mortuary to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital,” he said.
The results of the investigations are expected by the end of Wednesday.
Meshack was abducted on December 28, outside Turbo Dispensary, where he had taken his child.
His brother, Mr Moses Kisorio, said Meshack left his wife and the child at the dispensary to buy water at the shopping centre, never to return.
“The child had started vomiting, and that is when he decided to go buy water at the market at around midday, but he never returned,” he said.
His wife waited for about two hours at the health centre before going to check for her husband at the market, but failed to trace him.
Human Rights Activist Ken Wafula on Monday claimed there was a hit-squad sponsored by people connected to the government that was eliminating ICC witnesses.
The killers, he alleged, were also targeting human rights activists linked to the investigations into the 2007/08 post-election violence that claimed 1,333 lives and displaced over 650,000.
The ICC cases facing Deputy President William Ruto and former radio announcer Joshua arap Sang arose from the chaos.
Meshack’s family has linked his death to politics. He was a businessman-cum-politician.
His sister, Ms Clara Yebei, said on Sunday that Meshack had expressed fear for his life after differing with some people on the ICC cases.
Funeral arrangements for the father of two are going on at his home in Sugoi.
