Six of the seven protesters who were missing from the June 25 protests after their arrest were Saturday morning found alive and injured.
They have narrated their ordeal in the hands of police after the arrest on Thursday in Nairobi.
Whereas human rights activists thought those missing were six, they realized they were seven after a female protester who had not been documented was found in hospital and injured on Saturday morning.
They were found dumped along Langata Road and Ngong Forest with injuries from beatings, activists said.
They were taken to hospital for medical checkups.
The motives are yet to be known.
Speaking from their hospital beds at the Nairobi Women’s Hospital, the group said they were arrested and bundled onto police lorries and taken to Central police station. They were not allowed to disembark from the lorries. They were again driven to Parklands. Again they were not allowed to disembark.
Come evening, they were drive to Limuru area where they were abandoned on the road in a dark area. They claimed that few minutes later, private cars emerged and picked them.
They said they were driven to dark houses where they were beaten up until Saturday dawn when they were picked up and dumped in the places they were found.
They said they were beaten up at a house or houses under construction.
Officials said Davis Luchuma is missing and efforts to look for him are ongoing.
Activists who gathered at the Milimani courthouse to witness the release of other protesters said all their earlier efforts to find the activists had been fruitless as they called on the government to release them.
One of the activists, Shakira Wafula, called on the government to release the six or present them in court, as they prepare to file a missing persons report.
Ernest Oduor, from the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), said then: “We cannot find Fredrick Odhiambo Ojiro, Davis Luchuma, Elisha Alam, Collins Ochieng, Muteti Mulinge and Michael Ngige.”
The others were found but Lichuma was missing.
The activists said they had been searching for the missing person in vain.
The images of their arrest were captured and widely circulated.
Meanwhile, more than 200 suspects arrested during the June 25 demonstrations in Nairobi were arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts and charged with obstructing motor vehicles and disrupting traffic flow on major roads in Nairobi.
According to the charge sheets presented before the court, the accused persons are alleged to have, on June 25, 2026, at around 9:30 a.m. along Landhies Road, unlawfully assembled on a section of the road and obstructed the operations of motor vehicles.
The prosecution further alleges that the suspects blocked the road by heaping stones and burning tyres, thereby causing obstruction and inconvenience to other road users, contrary to the law.
Those arraigned include 12 suspects from Kamukunji Police Station, 58 from Shauri Moyo Police Station, 46 from Industrial Area Police Station, and 87 from Central Police Station.
The accused denied the charges and were released on a cash bail of Sh1,000 each. The case will be mentioned on July 2, 2026.
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