Nairobi-Ugandan Member of Parliament (MP) David Wakikona, who was reported missing after taking a taxi in Nairobi has been found, Kenyan local media report. Wakikona is a ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) MP representing Bukigai County in Bududa District.
Kilimani Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) Andrew Muturi is quoted by Kenyans.co.ke confirming on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 that Wakikona was found by officers attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
Muturi added that the lawmaker had already traveled back to Uganda and that the DCI was conducting a further probe on the matter.
“There was a missing persons report filed at the police station and the DCI took over the investigations. He was found and has already returned to Uganda,” stated the OCPD.
According to the police report filed at the Kilimani police station on October 3, 2022 his colleague, Emmanuel Opio noted that the MP had boarded a taxi from a residential area in the upmarket estate to ferry him to the Central Business District (CBD).
“Wakikona had checked in at Samura Court along Argwings Kodhek road together with his colleagues and his whereabouts remain unknown,” the report read in part.
A guard who was manning the gate stated that Wakikona had asked him to get him a cab to Tom Mboya Street as the destination.
The MP was in the company of other lawmakers of the Ugandan Parliament who had rented out the apartment during their trip to the country.
David Wakikona is a trained pilot who previously served in the Cabinet of Uganda as State Minister for Northern Uganda (2 June 2006 until 27 May 2011) and State Minister of Trade & Antiquities (May 2011 to June 2016)
