Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has offered Sh300,000 reward for information on missing human rights activist Caroline Mwatha.
Sonko on Monday urged anybody with information to contact the nearest police station or the Directorate of Criminal Investigations offices.Mwatha, a senior official at Dandora Community Social Justice Center, disappeared last Wednesday.
She had been documenting cases of enforced disappearance and police extrajudicial killings, including the cold blood murder of six Dandora residents in October last year.Her search has been extended to water bodies and forests in Nairobi and its vicinity.
Coordinator Wilfred Olal said they have written to relevant bodies to grant them access to forests and rivers.
She was committed to highlighting the ills committed by rogue officers. Concerns of her whereabouts grew after she failed to report to work on Wednesday. She is reported to have worked on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, she took her daughter to school but failed to report to work. On Thursday, her colleagues’ efforts to reach her on the phone proved futile. Her phone was switched off.
A friend also claimed to have called her at around 6 pm on Wednesday but her calls went unanswered. The centre sent one of her co-workers to her place. She found her 13-year-old daughter alone in the house. Her disappearance was reported to Buru Buru police station on Friday.