WAJIR– Della Anole Ward Member of County Assembly (MCA) in Eldas Constituency, Wajir County Mr Yussuf Hussien Ahmed alias “Tolfiyow” who went missing for more than a month was Sunday morning found dead in Lake Yahud.
Kin of the MCA positively identified his body which was badly mutilated with eyes gorged out and nose and hands chopped off. Yussuf , who was also the minority leader of Wajir County Assembly, went missing on September 13.
A search of the MCA was active for the last few weeks but all in vain.
It is not clear who was behind the abduction and murder of the MCA. Locals thronged a local morgue to identify the body that was badly tortured and decomposed.
BREAKING NEWS- An unidentified male body was found in Lake Yahud, Wajir County, on Sunday, displaying signs of severe torture and burns. The body has been taken to the Wajir morturary.
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Witnesses said the victim’s eyes had been fished out. Many locals took to social media to mourn the death.
Efforts to get comments from the local police were unsuccessful, as our calls and SMSs went unanswered.
Sources told Frontier Online that the family of the MCA wants to engage a private pathologist to ascertain the cause of death