Friends suspect foul play as body of missing activist found in mortuary

Burial of Ibrahim Mwiti at Langata Cemetery, Nairobi, on January 3, 2025. [Benard Orwongo,Standard]

The body of missing activist Ibrahim Hilal Mwiti was found at Thika Level 5 mortuary on January 1, 2025.

Mwiti who was a bodaboda delivery rider in Nairobi went missing in November 2024 sparking speculation over his whereabouts.

The activist who is said to have died in unclear circumstances was buried on Friday at Langata Cemetery.

“I have looked at his body and it looks like a case of hit and run though I have heard rumours circulating on certain blogs intimating that he was abducted and killed,” Sadhiah Iman told The Standard.

Sadhiah who refused to talk to the media at the cemetery, said it took long to find Mwiti’s body because he had no Identification on him when he met is death.

But friends who attended his burial suspected foul play, linking his death to abduction and murder.

“The motorbike he was riding when he was involved in an accident was found and taken to a police station but no one at the station took the number plates and searched at the National Transport Safety and Authority (NTSA) to know the details of next of kin and inform them. We read foul play in this narrative that it was a hit a run, it’s not just adding up,” said the deceased's friend who requested anonymity.  

Another friend who goes by the name Prince Baha and who announced Mwiti’s disappearance on social media, also claimed it was abduction and murder.

“The family declined to have post-mortem performed on the body. I looked at the body and there is nothing like hit and run. We are tired of these abductions and later death. Ok, he was just 24-years-old and he didn’t deserve this. Let us end abductions in this country,” he said at the cemetery.