Husband Detained for 10 Days

Detectives in Trans Nzoia County have arrested Tobias Keller Mouko, the husband of Caroline Mokeira, a senior accountant at the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) in Kapenguria who has been missing since Friday, October 17, 2025. Mr. Mouko was arrested alongside an unidentified woman and presented at the Kitale Law Courts. The prosecution successfully sought to have the two detained for 10 days to allow for further investigations into a case of suspected abduction. Resident Magistrate Nancy Rop approved the detention, noting the respondents are persons of interest in the ongoing probe.

Conflicting Statements Spark Suspicion

The arrest followed a formal report by Ms. Mokeira's family, who grew suspicious after Mr. Mouko provided contradictory accounts of his wife's whereabouts. According to family members, Ms. Mokeira, a 38-year-old mother of three, was last seen leaving her home in Kitale's Kibomet area on the evening of October 17 in the company of her husband. He reportedly returned home alone later that evening.

In one version of events, Mr. Mouko claimed he had escorted his wife to the Kitale bus park for a trip to Nairobi. In another statement, he said she had simply disappeared while they were on their way to town. This inconsistency prompted the family to involve the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).

A Trail of Troubling Clues

The investigation has been complicated by a series of unusual events preceding and following her disappearance. Just three days prior, on October 14, Ms. Mokeira and her husband were reportedly attacked by unknown assailants near their home, a detail the family believes is connected to her vanishing.

Further deepening the mystery, on the morning of Saturday, October 18, Ms. Mokeira's father, Joash Momanyi, received text messages from her phone number at 7:53 AM and 8:13 AM EAT. The messages claimed she was safe and relaxing at the Suam border area between Kenya and Uganda. However, subsequent calls to the phone went unanswered. Police later tracked the phone's last signal to the Suam border area before it went off. A family member, Nyabeta Mokaya, stated that as of eight days after the disappearance, the phone was still on and they believed someone else was using it.

Family's Plea for Action

Ms. Mokeira's family has expressed immense distress and has been actively putting up missing person posters across Kitale. Her mother, Wilkester Nyaboke, has made public appeals for any information that could lead to finding her daughter. The family had initially criticized the pace of the police investigation, urging the DCI to treat Mr. Mouko as the primary suspect from the outset. Colleagues at the KMTC Kapenguria campus, where she is a senior accountant, described Ms. Mokeira as quiet but outgoing and cheerful, noting nothing seemed unusual in the days before she went missing. Trans Nzoia County Criminal Investigations Officer Josphat Ndung'u has confirmed that the case is under active investigation as detectives pursue all available leads.