Veteran journalist Itumbi Wambua goes missing for third day after reporting to work

- Veteran journalist Itumbi Wambua works as the deputy director for communications at the National Lands Commission - Her husband said after dropping her at work, he was surprised to find her handbag and her mobile phone in the family car

- Veteran journalist Itumbi Wambua works as the deputy director for communications at the National Lands Commission

- Her husband said after dropping her at work, he was surprised to find her handbag and her mobile phone in the family car

- CCTV footage retrieved from the commission’s offices showed that she indeed reported at work on Friday, March 12, but was seen walking out about an hour later

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Veteran journalist Jennifer Itumbi Wambua has been missing for three days now after reporting at her workstation at the National Lands Commission offices.

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She was last seen on the morning of Friday, March 12, when her husband dropped her at work.

Wambua, a former bureau chief at Kenyan News Agency (KNA), Machakos county, did not return home after work, sending her family in panic.

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The journalist currently works as the deputy director for communications at the National Land Commission.

Her husband, Joseph Komu, said after dropping her at work, he was surprised to later find her handbag and mobile phone in the family car.

Komu suspects Wambua might have come back to the car, dropped her handbag, which contained her mobile phone, but he could not tell what happened thereafter.

“I picked the car at around 11am and went to the garage, where I discovered my wife’s handbag and her phone. After the car was fixed, I drove to her office to drop the items but was shocked when her colleagues told me she had not been seen that day,” Komu was quoted by Daily Nation.

Komu said after the wife failed to show up by Saturday, March 13, he drove back to NLC offices, where he reported the matter at Capitol Hill Police Station.

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Security footage retrieved from the commission’s offices by the DCI detectives showed that Wambua indeed reported to her fourth-floor office at ACK Annex adjacent to Ardhi House but was seen walking out about an hour later.

In the CCTV clip, she was captured alighting from the building’s lift and later as she exited the offices carrying her handbag.

“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,” said Komu.

On Sunday, March 14, Komu was interrogated by detectives at DCI headquarters and recorded a statement with the team tracing the journalist’s whereabouts.

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