Family in plea for missing nurse Titus Wesalia

Distraught that her boyfriend Titus Wesalia was not picking her calls, Higgin Wambuga decided to check on him in his house in Zimmerman on March 17.

She had a spare key to the house. On opening the door, she found his two phones charging, the TV on and a plate and some books on the table.

Wesalia, a nurse at the Aga Khan Hospital, was not in. He had not answered anyone’s calls since March 11. She got worried because Wesalia had never been that silent and had always told her when he would be away.

“We have not seen him or heard from him since March 11. We have searched in hospitals and police stations in Nairobi, Kiambu, Machakos and Thika but he is nowhere to be found,” Titus’s brother, Isaac Wandati, says.

He adds that their desperation has even pushed them to search for him at City, Chiromo, Kenyatta University and Thika mortuaries, but to no avail.

“When we enquired from the caretaker of Petbon flat in Zimmerman, Nairobi, he told us that he last saw my brother on Wednesday, March 11, in the evening,” says Mr Wandati.

The caretaker said he met Wesalia that day and that Wesalia was with a woman he was seeing off.

“We don’t know who the woman is and we are asking her to help us in the search,” says Mr Wandati.

Mr Wandati, who lives in Kitale but is currently in Nairobi for the search, says the disappearance has taken a heavy toll on the family.

“We don’t want to assume he is dead. We have hopes that he is alive and that he is somewhere… but it is really stressful,” he says.

A friend and workmate, David Maina, says Wesalia had never expressed fear for his life and that he was never involved in unscrupulous business.

Wesalia had recently been enrolled for a training programme at Kenyatta National Hospital.