Tom Osinde has been found dead. The body of the former top official at the National Treasury was found in River Kuja, in Migori County.

According to a report by the police, the body was found on June 22 and has been lying at the mortuary awaiting identification.

The body was identified as that of Osinde by his family and two suspects who had been arrested bin connection with his disappearance on June 27. The two susoects were his workers and were arrested at his Ngata farm in Nakuru County.

One of the workers in custody is a driver to Osinde.  He was seen driving Osinde’s car in his village in Nyamira and to the place it was found dumped and vandalized on the roadside in Kiligoris.

He is said to have driven the four-wheel motor vehicle to a car wash in Osinde’s village a day after he was reported missing.

“He told us to wash the car from outside only because it was not dirty inside,”  one of the car wash attendants told the police.

The suspect had spent the night in his village with Osinde’s car which was unusual and shocking to the villagers and neighbors.  He then drove it to Kilgoris and abandoned it there, police investigations show.

Police say that they have also recovered polythene papers that were used to choke him. 

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Osinde went missing on June 18 while traveling from his Nakuru home to Borabu, Kisii, the family said.

Osinde is the brother to the late ambassador Ken Osinde, the former Chief of Staff in the office of the then Deputy President William Ruto (now President).

Ken also served as Kenya’s ambassador to Germany, between 2010 and 2014, before serving as chief of staff at the Harambee House Annex. He died in a Nairobi Hospital in October 2021, after a brief illness.