A suspected Mombasa drug baron who went missing on December 5, 2021 has been found dead.
Masuo Bakari Tajiri’s badly decomposed body was recovered in a thicket in Thika, Kiambu county.
Masuo, who has a string of drug related cases in various courts, went missing alongside Fahmi Bakari, 21 and Hussein Mohamed 26.
Bakari’s relative, Hussein Masuo, confirmed that the suspected drug kingpin’s body had been recovered in a thicket in Thika town and transported to City Mortuary in Nairobi.
Relatives of the trio claim unknown people at Maungu near Voi in Taita Taveta county abducted them on December 5, last year.
However, the whereabouts of Fahmi and Mohamed remained unknown despite reports that one body had been recovered near Pirate’s Beach in Bamburi area, Mombasa.
Their families say the three had travelled to Limuru and Thika towns on December 3 allegedly to buy a Nissan matatu.
Bakari, who was being sought by Interpol over transborder drug trafficking in Tanzania, Congo and Kenya, was also facing a case of being found in possession of 24,466.4 grams of heroin with a market value of Ksh7. 4 million.
