Missing Govt Official Found Dead
According to police reports, her body was found at City Mortuary in Nairobi. Police have also revealed that her body was collected from the Ngong area on Saturday, March 13.
Marvin Chege 
Jennifer Wambua, the official attached to the National Land Commission (NLC) has been found dead.
Wambua is also a veteran journalist formerly based in Machakos as the Bureau Chief for Kenya News Agency (KNA).
According to police reports, her body was found at City Mortuary in Nairobi. Police have also revealed that her body was collected from the Ngong area on Saturday, March 13.
Wambua was working as the commission’s deputy communications director before the incident. She was not seen since Friday, March 12, and a missing person report was filed at the Capitol Hill Police Station, Nairobi by her husband.
Joseph Komu, her husband, revealed that he had been searching for her at different places in Nairobi, including hospitals and police stations, but with no fruit.
Her disappearance elicited mystery amongst the public, and it took a new twist after Wambua had left her personal effects in the family vehicle’s boot. They included her mobile phone, packed lunch, and handbag.
Komu also revealed that he had obtained CCTV footage detailing her movements into and out of the NLC offices that showed her get in on the day she went missing. He had dropped her earlier on as the footage showed her leave the offices at around 10 am alone.
Komu stated that he dropped the mother of three at the offices at about 7 am and went to his place of work at the Ministry of Agriculture headquarters at Kilimo House.
“We speak to each other regularly, and on that day I called her at around 10 am, but she did not answer,” he said.
Komu added that he did not think there was any reason to panic and figured his wife was busy at work or in meetings. Later in the day, when he went to a garage to have his car fixed, he realized that Wambua had left her personal effects in the vehicle’s boot.
“I thought she would find a friend’s phone and call asking me to deliver her phone, but she didn’t and she has not done so up to now,” Komu said.
Komu drove to NLC offices where he learned his wife had not been present for the better part of the day and the door of her office was locked. He left for his house hoping to find her.
“If she is somewhere reading this please tell her to come home.
“Already, detectives have retrieved CCTV footage at her place of work, and preliminary investigations show that she entered her Fourth-floor office and later left carrying her handbag, an hour later,” Komu added.
However, detectives were left reeling in confusion as to how her mobile phone was hours later discovered in her husband’s car that was parked near her office.
“It appears she was either kidnapped at the parking lot after she opened the car and put the handbag containing her mobile phone, or she willingly dropped her items at the car,” the distressed Komu added, noting that they both had the keys to the vehicle.
