April 27th 2021 at 08:00:00 GMT +0300
Jenifer Wambua, the deputy director of communications at National Lands Commission (NLC) was reported missing by her husband Joseph Komu on Friday March 12, 2021. Three days later, her body was found by a herdsman in Ngong. The late Wambua is among an increasing number of women who disappear, only to end up murdered.
Businesswoman Caroline Maina went missing on February 12 after visiting a bank in Nairobi’s Ngara area and withdrawing Sh350,000 from her account.
Her body was later found in Kajiado, five days after she was reported missing. An autopsy report showed that she died of head injuries inflicted with a blunt object.
THE STANDARD By
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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KENYA
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.