Missing National Lands Commission Official Found Murdered, Body Dumped in Ngong' Forest

Missing National Lands Commission (NLC) Deputy Director of Communication Jennifer Wambua has been found murdered.

Police found her lifeless body dumped in Ngong’ Forest on Saturday and took it to City Mortuary, where it was positively identified by her husband on Monday.

Preliminary investigations indicate that the deceased was strangled to death before the perpetrators dumped her body in the forest.

Jennifer, a former journalist, disappeared on Friday hours after her husband Joseph Komu dropped her at her office based at ACK Annex adjacent to Ardhi House.

Her unusual silence on that day made Komu suspicious, prompting him to call her but the phone went unanswered.

“We speak to each other regularly so I called her at 10 am, but she did not answer my calls. I figured that she could be busy or in meetings,” Komu said.

Komu later took his car to a garage to be fixed only to find Jennifer’s belongings, including handbag, mobile phone, and packed lunch in the car’s boot.

He drove back to NLC offices only to find that his wife was not at work, her office was locked and none of her colleagues was aware of her whereabouts. He rushed home but she was not there.

“CCTV footage shows that she entered her fourth-floor office and later left carrying her handbag, an hour later,” Komu said.

He added: “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.” 

It emerged that Jennifer and her husband, who reported her disappearance at Capitol Hill police station, shared the car and both had keys to the car. Komu works at the Ministry of Agriculture at Kilimo House, a walking distance from Jennifer’s workplace.

Jennifer was a key State witness in several corruption cases and was due to testify in one on Tuesday, according to family lawyer Daniel Maanzo.