The family of Wajir member of County Assembly Yusuf Hussein Ahmed who went missing last week has moved to court seeking police to produce in court.
In a habeas corpus application filed by his cousin Abdikadir Abdillahi, he says the MCA went missing from South B estate since the night of September 13, 2024 when he was forcefully removed from a taxi that he had ordered from the estate at 8PM on the said date.
Yussuf is the MCA for Dela Ward in Wajir County.
Abdikadir states that four days after the ordeal, nobody has accounted for the whereabouts of Yussuf despite there being two OBs for the incident.
“The whereabouts of Yussuf Hussein Ahmed remains unknown and unaccounted for and there is reasonable fear that he was abducted by officers attached to the Inspector General of Police and DCI whom have refused to either allow his family to visit him in custody and/or refused to present him before a court of law to answer to any charge in law”,Abdikadir states in court documents.
He says that unless the Court intervenes and compels the police to produce him before Court or any other court with the requisite jurisdiction, Abdikadir and his family will continue to live with anxiety and stress caused by the forced disappearance and abduction of their loved one without the benefit of being subjected to any legal proceedings.
In in any event, Abdikadir says in court papers that Yussuf has an absolute right to habeas corpus and to fair trial, thus he should be subjected to due process of the law other than abducting him and leaving his loved ones worrying of his whereabouts.
The petitioner says that police are not above the law and should therefore willingly or by coercion of the Court respect and obey the Constitution and any laws of the land.
“It is wholly illegal, unconstitutional and unjust for the Respondents to treat my first cousin as a second-class citizen and to subject him to inhuman and degrading treatment,” the court papers read.
