Three bodies believed to be those of Human Rights lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and Their taxi Driver Joseph Muiruri Found

KENYA: Youthful Mr Kimani a Nairobi lawyer was working for a US legal charity, the International Justice Mission, which focuses on cases of police abuse of power. Last Thursday, June 23, Willie accompanied a client Josephat Mwenda to trial in a case involving a police officer on a drug-related case was the last day doing what he loved most.

File Photo: Willie Kimani.

The day started like any other for Willie Kimani. He put on his gray trousers, jungle-green jacket and black shoes. He said goodbye to his wife and two young sons. And he walked out the door.

But what came next was like something out of a thriller movie,

After a couple of witnesses testified on the case he was handling, the case was adjourned a little before noon. Mr. Kimani and his client left the courthouse, on the outskirts of Nairobi, in a taxi.

Then they disappeared, just like that!

Around 4:30 p.m. Thursday, after the men had left the courtroom and no one had been able to reach them, Mr. Mwenda’s wife received a strange phone call, colleagues say.

A passer-by happened to see two men, maybe more, locked in a metal container on a police base yelling through a barred window for help.

The men threw out a note scribbled on toilet paper. The note was from Mr. Mwenda. It said: Call my wife. I’m in danger.

That is the last anyone has seen or heard from Mr. Kimani, Mr. Mwenda or the taxi driver, human rights advocates say. Their phones abruptly went dead on Thursday night. Police officers at the base where the toilet paper note was reportedly thrown out the window denied ever seeing the three.

However, police at the camp denied ever hosting the three in their jail cells.

Early the next morning, the taxi was found more than 30 miles away, parked on a road in a deserted, misty tea plantation, with the doors locked.

LSK members protest at Jogoo House.

Today, July 1, two bodies suspected to be those of the above named, Lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and the driver Joseph Muiruri were found in Oldonyo Sabuk river, Kilimambogo.

According to developing news, the third body, believed to be Willie Kimani, slipped back into he river and the search is going on.

The court has given Boinnet and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations up to 2pm, today, Friday, July 1, to give an interim report on investigations into the disappearance of Kimani and two others.