Missing Activist Collins Otieno found dumped along Thika Road

Activist Collins Otieno has been found after reportedly disappearing while seeking assistance to trace fellow activist Boniface Mulinge Muteti, who had also gone missing on Monday, September 21. 

Otieno was among several activists who were arrested in Nairobi’s Central Business District on Monday, during protests over the continued detention of long-time Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye.

In an update issued on Saturday, September 26, Vocal Africa Chief Executive Officer Hussein Khalid said Otieno was discovered along Thika Road at about 4:30am. 

According to Khalid, a boda boda rider found the activist and took him to Neema Uhai Hospital in the Kasarani area, where he was receiving treatment. 

“Comrade Collins Otieno has been found. He was dumped along Thika Road. A good Samaritan boda boda guy found him around 4.30am and rushed him to hospital. Like comrade Muteti, Collins is disoriented, weak, and injured. He is presently at Neema Uhai Hospital around Kasarani receiving treatment,” Khalid stated.

His recovery comes a day after Muteti was also found alive in the Lukenya area of Machakos following several days of uncertainty over his whereabouts. 

Muteti had reportedly disappeared on Monday after leaving fellow protesters in CBD to print a petition, before being found on Friday morning and taken to Sanel Hospital in Mlolongo for treatment after he was found injured and disoriented.

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Reports indicated that Otieno had gone to report Muteti’s disappearance and help establish where his colleague was before he also reportedly went missing. 

The circumstances surrounding Otieno’s disappearance and how he ended up along Thika Road were not immediately explained in Khalid’s update. 

The protests came amid continued questions over the circumstances surrounding Dr Kizza Besigye’s disappearance from Nairobi in November 2024 and his subsequent appearance in Uganda, where he was arraigned and initially faced proceedings before a military court.

Activists have been demanding that authorities explain the circumstances surrounding his transfer from Kenya to Uganda, including whether Kenyan police were involved.

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