Baringo family demands production of man allegedly picked up by police
A portrait of missing businessman and church elder Enock Chebon.
A Baringo family has moved to court seeking the production of a businessman who was allegedly arrested by persons believed to be police officers more than 10 days ago and whose whereabouts remain unknown.
In an urgent application, the family of Enock Chebon Chelimo claims police officers picked him up at his home in Kampi Samaki on October 31 and he has not been seen since.
His son, Bernard Chebon, says his father had received threats before his disappearance and was being pressured to surrender an AK-47 rifle, which he insists he does not own.
Lawyers Shadrak Wambui (left) and Danstan Omari (right), alongside Brian Chebon (second left) and Lizzy Chebon, children of missing church elder Enock Chebon, address journalists at the Milimani Law Courts on November 9, 2026.
The family says it has made several attempts to report the disappearance at Marigat, Kabarnet and Kampi Samaki police stations, but the officers allegedly declined to record their statements.
The family wants the court to order Inspector-General of Police Douglas Kanja, either personally or jointly with the other respondents, to produce Mr Chelimo before the court.
“That this Honourable Court be pleased to direct the 2nd Respondent (Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja) either personally or jointly with the other Respondents, and Interested Parties to immediately and unconditionally present the person of the Applicant herein before this Honourable Court on or before the 10th of November 2026,” the application states.
Mr Chebon says the demands that his father surrender a firearm he does not own or knows anything about form the basis of what he describes as his sudden and worrying disappearance at the hands of the Special Operations Group, a unit of the National Police Service.
He says he spent the night at his father's home in Kampi Samaki before the alleged arrest. The two later went to the local chief to report the threats and demands being made against his father.
He describes his father as a senior citizen, renowned businessman, and family man, a husband, father, and grandfather.
“The manner in which the Applicant was whisked away, in search for/of an alleged AK-47 rifle, is wanting, and has sparked fear, anxiety and a cloud of uncertainty as to the whereabouts and the status, alive or dead, of the Applicant, which gathers and keeps becoming heavier and scarier by the day, to both family, friends and acquaintances,” he says.
Court documents indicate that a disarmament exercise is ongoing in the Marigat region, where the family comes from.
However, Mr Chebon dismisses claims that his father's business activities could have involved possession of a firearm, describing the allegations as fabricated and intended to justify his alleged arbitrary arrest and disappearance.
“To claim that he held a rifle due to his business activities and that he had to be abducted for the rifle to be recovered is an entirely fabricated story, knitted in lies and aimed at justifying his arbitrary incarceration and disappearance,” he says.
The family further accuses local police stations and administrative offices of failing to act on reports about Mr Chelimo's disappearance.
“Several reports by the Applicant's family and close friends have gone unanswered and unattended, both at the local police stations and administrative bodies, which have categorically distanced themselves from lodging investigations, alluding to the said disappearance as a government operation,” he says.
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