Bashir Mohamed Investigation: In an application that was filed at the Kajiado Law Courts last week, the family of slain businessman Bashir Mohamed said they had every reason to believe Bashir was arrested by police officers.
“The police officers under the direction and command of the respondents carried out an arbitrary arrest commando style, and without any legal and moral consideration, carried out unwarranted, intrusive, abusive and demeaning arrest,” said Abdifatah Mohamed Mohamud, the deceased’s brother.
In the court papers, Abdifatah further accused the American government of being non-committal about his brother’s whereabouts. “Attempts to see Bashir have not been successful as the police officers at various stations have been uncooperative,” he said in court.
Inspector General of Police, Interior Cabinet Secretary, Director of Public Prosecutions, OCS Oloolua Police Station, OCS Muthangari Police Station and the United States of America were listed as respondents in the petition.
A few days later, Bashir’s body was identified as the one that had been found in a river in Mwea East, Kirinyaga County. A report in the Standard newspaper said that Bashir had been found dead three days after he went missing.
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“According to Kirinyaga County police boss Leah Kithei, Bashir’s mutilated body was retrieved from Nyamidi river on May 16 after they received reports from residents of Mirera village in Mwea. The body was registered at Kerugoya Level Five Hospital morgue as an unknown body before detectives ran his fingerprints for identification,” the report said. “It was difficult to identify the body because his face was disfigured and he had no identification on him. It took a week to match the fingerprints.”
The report further said that detectives are now looking into the businessman’s dealings, including some of the tenders he has won through his company, Infinity Developers Ltd, which has undertaken multi-million-shilling government construction jobs in Kenya for the last five years.