Police have raised eyebrows after revealing that it took about 42 days between identifying the body of activist Ibrahim Hilal Mwiti and the family identifying the body. In a statement aimed at clarifying the circumstances that led to the death of the 24-year-old activist, the National Police Service (NPS) indicated that Mwiti's body was discovered on November 12, 2024, past midnight by Juja Traffic Police. Police would then begin the process of identifying the body.
According to NPS, police took fingerprints and sent them to the National Registration Bureau, which returned the results on November 21, 2024, positively identifying the body as that of Ibrahim Mwiti Mwiti.
However, despite police identifying the body, the family that had reported him missing had begun the process of tracing him.
According to the mother, it searched in mortuaries around the capital where he was last seen and expanded to the metro area of Nairobi. Their search paid off.
