The drama surrounding the disappearance of a Thika millionaire has taken a new turn after he resurfaced on Sunday morning, not dead, but alive, police say.
Julius Gitau, alias Gitau wa Mali, a well-known wholesale trader in Thika town, went missing on September 21 after he asked his driver to pick his vehicle near Blue Post Hotel in Thika
What appeared to be a suicide note was later retrieved from the dashboard of the vehicle and the trader has not been seen since then.
But Sunday, at 9.44am, Gatanga Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss John Kanda called the Nation with the news that Mr Gitau has resurfaced.
“We have spoken to him. He is alive. I always told you we were on top of this search and our leads were that it was immature to conclude he was dead. He is now heading to our offices for processing,” Mr Kanda said.
The trader has resurfaced three days after his ailing mother, Rosemary Wanjiru, 69, threatened to camp outside State House, Nairobi until police tell her the whereabouts of her son.
“I want to pack my bedding and move to State House gates to wait for the president and plead with him to issue an order to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to get me my son,” she had told Nation at her Kaharate home in Murang’a County.
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She said DCI was killing her with anxiety by not giving her a reason to keep hoping that her son is well.
“We are now past two months since my son was reported missing. The DCI is treating this case in a very casual manner and all I am being told through the press is that the case is still under investigation. I know if it was a big man’s son who had gone missing we would have known his whereabouts within hours…DCI here knows they are searching for a son of a poor aging and ailing single mother,” she said.