NAIROBI, KENYA: A lawyer working as a supervisor with the taxman was abducted and strangled before his body was dumped off Mombasa Road, Nairobi.
Mr Jared Ratemo Mokua, 35 and a father of three worked as a supervisor in Kenya Revenue Authority's (KRA) Customs and Border Control Department, Consolbase Container Freight Services, Mombasa.
His body was found dumped at the junction of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport/ Mombasa Road on Wednesday morning long after he went missing.
He had been strangled and hit by a blunt object on the head. His brother Harun said Mokua had traveled to Nairobi to solve a tax related matter when he met his death.
Harun said Mokua was to travel to Mombasa on Tuesday and was to use a 9.30 am flight.
He and his wife ran a law firm that operates from Ngara area.
According to Harun, Mokua passed by his law firm in Ngara on Tuesday morning and left in hurry for a meeting in town and planned to travel to JKIA to catch his flight.
"When the wife tried to reach him at about 9 am, his mobile phone was not going through. She tried up to late and later decided to make a report to police," said Harun.
He added police called them Wednesday morning to break the sad news of the discovery of the body.
