This archive report was first published on 12 July 2019.
Published on July 12, 2019, a Kenyan family in Germany is searching for their missing kin, days after the skeleton of a missing Kenyan woman was found in Brandenburg.
The family of Benson Wachira, a 34-year-old student at the University of Duisburg-Essen, claims the German police is not doing enough to help trace their kin who went missing 12 days ago.
Wachira disappeared on June 29 after leaving his uncle's house to look for his misplaced backpack. He has not been seen since, and neither has he contacted his family.
According to Mkenya Ujerumani, a local blog about Kenyans in Germany, Wachira mentioned that he had lost his backpack and needed to go find it when he arrived at his uncle's house around 1pm.
His missing backpack together with his cellphone were anonymously dropped off into the police post box a few days later.
The family has resorted to using social media to find Wachira, as they claim the police has not helped them.
This is not the first time a Kenyan has gone missing in Germany. Two weeks ago, the skeleton of a Kenyan woman was found after she went missing for three months.
Ms Rita Awuor Ojunge, 32, was reported missing on April 7, 2019, after she failed to return to the asylum shelter in Höhenleipisch where she lived with her husband and two children.
Her skeleton was found in mid-June, and the cause of her death remains unclear with police officers attached to the South Brandenburg Police Department saying investigations had started.
