A missing senior intelligence officer at Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is among the bodies that were pulled out of River Yala.  DNA test done on the bodies identified one of them as officer Francis Osore Oyaro.

The officer's family has since been requested to visit Siaya morgue to collect the remains of their loved one.

Oyaro went missing on August 28, 2021, while he was travelling to Nakuru from the Marsabit National Park where he was the assistant warden. He had just been granted leave and was headed to Nakuru to see his family.

His workmates revealed that he left Marsabit in a KWS van and alighted in Nanyuki. From there he boarded a matatu to Nakuru and was to use the Naromoru-Kanyagia route.

According to reports, a saloon car intercepted the matatu Oyaro was travelling in, allegedly showed the driver some kind of identification and asked to see Oyaro's luggage.

They seemed to know each other. Further reports indicate that he asked them why they had followed him yet he was with them. They snatched his phone when he attempted to make a call and forced him into their car.

He was reported missing at the Nakuru Police Station three days later when he failed to come home.

The family contacted KWS for information about his whereabouts. The story only made it to the news three weeks after he had gone missing.

At the time Oyaro went missing, five other men Gerald Guandaru, 45, Isaac Mwangi, 34, Samuel Ngacha, 34, Bernard Wanjohi, 40, and Wilson Mwangi, 26 went missing. They are also believed to have been kidnapped by the same gang within the same locality where Oyaro was a warden.

Oyaro's body was identified after the DNA matched samples him mother had submitted.