Drama erupted in the corridors of the Milimani Law Courts today as distraught relatives and human rights activists clashed emotionally during a habeas corpus hearing, demanding that the state immediately disclose the whereabouts of three missing men.

The families of Michael Oloo Osoro, Evans Otieno Omondi, and Macmillan Kiarie Mugo, who reportedly disappeared from Nairobi’s Mathare area in late June 2026, accuse state agents of abducting their loved ones.

Amid rising public anxiety over enforced disappearances, the petition filed under extreme urgency seeks to compel the Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, and the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Mohamed Amin, to produce the three individuals.

The raw pain of the families boiled over into protests inside the court precinct as they demanded accountability from the security apparatus.

Represented by a team of advocates, including former Law Society of Kenya President Faith Odhiambo and lawyer Abner Mango, the families recounted their painful, fruitless weeks spent searching through various police stations, hospitals, and mortuaries.

They maintain that the three men were intercepted in separate incidents by armed, plainclothes officers believed to be state security agents.

In a legal escalation, the High Court certified the application as urgent and issued a stern directive summoning both Inspector General Douglas Kanja and DCI Mohamed Amin to personally appear before the court on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at noon.

Under the strict constitutional mandate of a writ of habeas corpus, the two security chiefs have been ordered to produce the three missing men, whether alive or dead, and formally account for their whereabouts.