A week after businessman Jimmy Mwanzia Mutava vanished without a trace, newly retrieved CCTV footage has cast serious doubt on the official narrative, placing a senior officer from the Mlolongo Police Station at the center of growing suspicion.
While Mutava’s family remains desperate for answers, the video recordings provide a detailed timeline of his final known movements, directly contradicting statements previously given by police to his relatives.
The surveillance footage lays out a precise sequence of events leading up to Mutava’s sudden disappearance on the afternoon of his abduction.
At 12:30 PM, Mutava arrived at a local entertainment venue in Mlolongo after being dropped off by a white vehicle, where he was soon joined by the Officer Commanding Station (OCS) from Mlolongo Police Station.
By 7:04 PM, a third unidentified man joined their table. Later, at 8:15 PM, Mutava was seen seated and using two mobile phones while a nearby man wearing a cap stood watching the area closely while speaking on his phone.
Five minutes later, at 8:20 PM, Mutava walked outside toward the main gate while continuing his call, leaving the senior officer seated inside with a woman. Eyewitnesses state it was during this exact window at 8:20 PM that Mutava was forcibly abducted by masked, armed assailants.
This footage directly refutes the account allegedly provided by the senior officer to Mutava’s family, in which he claimed he was away in the restroom when Mutava vanished.
Mutava’s friend, Paul Ngunda, recalled finding the OCS sitting at the table with another woman and three bottles, where the officer claimed Jimmy had been taken while he was away in the washroom.
Contrary to that statement, the CCTV footage shows the officer remaining at the table throughout the entire incident, calmly continuing his drink as several men briefly approached and spoke to him before leaving.
At approximately 9:23 PM nearly an hour after the alleged abduction the officer finally exited the establishment accompanied by the woman.
For Mutava’s family, the video evidence and phone records raise troubling questions about who orchestrated the abduction and why no one present attempted to intervene.
Mutava’s wife, Margaret Mutuku, expressed her deep distress, asking how someone could invite her husband out, take him from their home, and then allow him to disappear under his watch while his children constantly ask when their father is coming home.
Phone tracking records indicate that Mutava’s last mobile signal was traced along Kamiti Road, yet despite growing public outcry and clear inconsistencies surrounding the case, neither the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) nor the National Police Service (NPS) has issued an official statement regarding the latest developments.
