Sonko promises reward to anyone with information on Caroline Mwatha

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has offered Sh300,000worth of  reward for any one who will have  information on missing human rights activist Caroline Mwatha.

He further added saying that 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.

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko. /FILE

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.

Caroline Mwatha, a founding member of the Dandora Community Social Justice Centre, was last seen on Wednesday.

The centre has been lobbying and calling for police professionalism, accountability and an end to extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.

Caroline’s colleague said she had received threats from police officers. Her family is worried that she could become part of the statistics she documented.

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.

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