By Nyaboga Kiage
Sunday August 21, 2022
Mr Japhet Dibo. He was contracted by the electoral commission in the Information and Technology section.
An Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)
officer who was reported missing has been found.
Mr Japhet Dibo, who was contracted by the electoral
commission in the Information and Technology (IT) section had gone missing on
August 18, 2022, before the matter was reported the next day at Kilimani Police
Station under Occurrence Book Number 39/19/08/2022.
“We are okay and he (Mr Dibo) is at home, there is nothing
to worry about,” Mr Dibo’s wife Flora Aluoch told Nation.Africa on Saturday.
His lawyer Mr Trevor Lichuma told Nation.Africa that Mr Dibo
was forcefully taken by unknown people Thursday at 10 pm and was released on
Friday at 2 pm.
Mr Lichuma said that the family was worried and that was the
reason why they opted to make a report to the police.
"Detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal
Investigations (DCI) are investigating the matter and we hope they will get to
the bottom of it all," said the lawyer.
Mr Dibo owns Dial Africa, an IT company with its
headquarters at the Kenya Institute of Supplies Management in Nairobi.
Mrs Aluoch had earlier said that her husband, who was
contracted by IEBC during the just-concluded General Election as an IT
consultant had left his office at KISM Towers in Nairobi in the company of an
unknown man and never returned home.
She told the police that her husband was last seen wearing a
light blue shirt and a navy blue pair of trousers.
IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati had raised concerns that the
commission’s staff were being threatened, profiled and intimidated.
Speaking while declaring William Ruto as the
president-elect, Mr Chebukati pointed out that the electoral agency’s critical
staff who had worked at the National Tallying Centre at the Bomas of Kenya were
being harassed.
Probe ongoing
Already, detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal
Investigations (DCI) are currently investigating an incident in which the
Embakasi East returning officer Daniel Musyoka disappeared before his body was
found in Loitoktok, Kajiado County.
Mr Mohamed Kanyare, an IEBC presiding officer at Towheed
polling centre in Elnur Tula Tula ward within Eldas constituency, was shot by
unknown persons on the election day.
At the Eldas tallying centre, chaos erupted with locals
lighting bonfires outside the facility.
So bad was the situation that IEBC commissioner Abdullahi
Guliye was forced to fly to Wajir to meet parliamentary seat candidates to
quell the situation.
He met with Adan Keynan of the Jubilee party and Ahmed Boray
of the Orange Democratic Movement.
Kanyare later had his leg amputated.