Members of the public intervened on Wednesday morning as unknown persons attempted to kidnap one of the divers involved in the recovery of bodies at the Kware dump in Mukuru Kwa Njenga earlier this year.

Taking to social media to report the incident, the Mukuru Community Justice Center said unknown men suspected to be police officers tried to take the diver by force while at the Kware Rapture Church.

“Pastor Wa Vijana, one of the #MukuruDarkestHour diver volunteers, was rescued by members of the public as he was abducted minutes ago by unknown men suspected to be police officers at the Kware Rapture Church. They took his phone. escaped using bodaboda,” read part of the statement shared at 7:00 a.m. Wednesday.

“We condemn this act in the strongest possible terms, the state should stop profiling, intimidating, stalking and intimidating the volunteers who helped recover the bodies from Kware. The government didn’t do their job, so the volunteers did it for love. of our country.”

This troubling report came barely two weeks ago after the center released a report four months after the duplicate incident “Kware The Aftermath” highlighting police brutality and neglect by the national government.

In the report, they also revealed that they received no counseling after undertaking the traumatic exercise and that instead of being supported by law enforcement officers, they were subjected to intimidation.

“After recovering nine bodies on the first day, protests broke out in the community and the police started engaging Mukuru residents in pitched battles. Cases of police brutality have increased,” a representative of the Center stated in the report.

“As if finding bodies in quarries was not traumatic enough, 15 people were shot dead by policemen at Mukuru Police Station, one person lost his life as a result.”

They went on to say that there were several attempts to stop them from searching. One even stated that he was threatened with arrest.

Two weeks into the exercise, they said they were ordered to stop by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to make way for the government’s disaster management team in Nairobi.

After the bodies were discovered in July, police moved in to arrest their main suspect, Collins Jumaisi, accusing him of killing his wife first before going on a rampage to kill more.

During police interrogation, Jumaisi admitted to committing a total of 42 murders, a statement he later recanted, citing police intimidation.

Barely a month after his arrest, he escaped from police custody in the company of 12 other detaineesand efforts to recapture it were futile, leaving the matter unresolved for four months.