Two of the nineteen Yala bodies recovered from the ill fated river have been identified as known offenders.
Authorities now claim the two were criminals awaiting trial.
At the Yala Subcounty Hospital Mortuary, bodies of former police officer Peter Kioo Mutuku and his friend Philemon Chepkwony have been identified.
Mutuku was a close friend of Chepkwony and a former General Service Unit officer stationed at the headquarters.
On December 2, 2021, the two went missing while driving to Kericho in a rented automobile. The police later found it abandoned in Gilgil.
Mutuku and Chepkwony were charged in 2018 with stealing a lorry belonging to the Narok county administration, together with Timothy Kamonde Kaguru.
They had pled not guilty to stealing a county government-owned water bowser. They were released on bond in 2020.
On June 30, 2018, they are accused of stealing an Isuzu FV2 worth Sh11 million.
Mutuku was also charged with having 63 documents that looked like Sh1,000 notes, which were discovered at his Drive Inn residence in Nairobi.
The third case is that of Erastus Ndirangu, a 45-year-old businessman who went missing last November while traveling from Nairobi to Nakuru.
The bodies appeared to have been disposed of in a similar manner, with heavy objects being connected to them in an apparent attempt to keep them submerged in water.
Many more people with criminal records have gone missing, and their families are still trying to find them. All police commanders have been instructed by police headquarters to produce a list of all missing persons.
After it was discovered that some of the victims had been tortured and maybe murdered elsewhere before their remains were dumped in the river that drains into Lake Victoria, HAKI Africa wrote to DPP Noordin Haji demanding his intervention in the Yala case.
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