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Kamore Maina |
March 17th 2021 at 07:52:00 GMT +0300
Jenifer Wambua, the official at National Lands Commission (NLC) whose body was found at the City Mortuary, could have been killed a few hours after she disappeared from her office.
This is according to detectives who spent a better part of yesterday at Ngong forest trying to piece together her last moments.
A team from homicide section and Kilimani DCI combed the scene at Kerarapon in Ngong forest where Wambua s body was first discovered by a herder on Saturday morning.
Wambua was reported missing by her husband Joseph Komu who was among the last people to talk to her the day she disappeared. She was last seen on Friday morning at the office where she was the commission’s deputy director of communications.
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Veteran Machakos journalist Jennifer Itumbi Wambua who has gone missing since March 12, 2021. PHOTO | KITAVI MUTUA
The body of a senior officer with the National Land Commission (NLC), veteran Machakos journalist Jennifer Itumbi Wambua, was on Monday discovered at the Ngong Forest.
This was confirmed by Kilimani DCIO, Fatima Hadi, at the City Mortuary where her body was taken by the police.
Her body was positively identified by her husband.
Ms Wambua, a former bureau chief with the Kenya News Agency (KNA) in Machakos, was last seen on Friday morning, March 12, when her husband dropped her off at work.
Ms Wambua did not return home from work on Friday and she had not been traced by Sunday evening.
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The body of missing National Lands Commission Communications Deputy Director Jenifer Wambua (
pictured) has been found lying at City Mortuary.
Authorities say it was brought to the morgue after having been found dumped at Ngong Forest.
Police in Kilimani were investigating the disappearance of Wambua, who is the commission’s deputy communications director.
She has not been seen since Friday, and a missing person report was filed at the Capitol Hill Police Station by her husband.
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Joseph Komu, her husband, told
The Standard that he had searched for her in different places in Nairobi, including hospitals and police stations, but had yet to trace her.
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Jennifer Wambua the Director Communications, National Lands Commission [Courtesy]
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