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Activist Mulinge Muteti has been found after reportedly going missing.
Activist Mulinge Muteti has been found after reportedly going missing.
In an update on Friday, September 25, VOCAL Africa CEO Hussein Khalid said Muteti was discovered in the Lukenya area after being abandoned there early morning.
Khalid said Muteti was forced to walk for a long distance before reaching a petrol station, where he sought assistance from a member of the public to contact his family.
"He was dumped last night around 3am in the Lukenya area. He had to walk for a long distance to a shell petrol station where he got a good samaritan who helped him with a phone to call his brother," he wrote.
Khalid said Muteti, who was in a weak and disoriented state, was taken for medical attention after making contact with his family.
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"He is disoriented, weak and injured. He is currently receiving treatment at Sanel Hospital in Mlolongo area. Family, friends and comrades are proceeding there," he added.
Elsewhere, this comes months after Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) recovered the body of a 21-year-old missing RIAT College female student.
In a statement on Monday, April 13, DCI said the decomposed body was found at the RIAT Forest in Kisumu County.
According to the investigative agency, the body of the college student was bearing knife stub wounds.
"Detectives in Kisumu west in the company of officers from Maseno police station and those drawn from Riat police post have recovered a decomposing body of a 21- year- old RIAT College female student in RIAT forest, following her earlier reported disappearance," the DCI said.
The recovery of the body follows the arrest of Steven Coleman Okoth, who is believed to have orchestrated the gang rape, torture, and subsequent disappearance of the college student on the night of April 5, 2026.
DCI noted that concern over the victim’s whereabouts began when her elder sister was unable to reach her by phone due to poor network connectivity
The situation escalated at around midnight when the sister received a distressing text message.
"From the text, it was revealed that she had been lured into a drinking spree by two male colleagues from the same institution, leaving her incapacitated.
"In her vulnerable state, she was sexually assaulted and later abandoned in a bush in critical condition. But before she could be helped, her phone went offline," the DCI said.
Detectives launched investigations and, using crucial leads from forensic analysis, the team traced the victim's last known location to the Milimani area near the Kenya Wildlife Service offices.
However, the search efforts did not yield any results in finding the missing college student.
The breakthroughs in the investigations came after detectives identified and arrested a key suspect, said to be the victim’s former boyfriend.
The suspect had reportedly been seen with the victim on the night of her disappearance.
"Investigations further revealed a series of threats issued to the victim over the past two months by the suspect, who repeatedly visited her residence in RIAT in search of her," DCI added.
