Missing KCPE exam marker from Homa Bay found, hospitalised at Nairobi Women’s facility

By , K24 Digital
On Wed, 27 Nov, 2019 12:43 | 2 mins read
Moses Odumbe, the missing KCPE 2019 exam marker from Homa Bay County, has been found, K24 Digital can authoritatively report. [PHOTO | COURTESY]
Moses Odumbe, the missing KCPE 2019 exam marker from Homa Bay County, has been found, K24 Digital can authoritatively report. [PHOTO | COURTESY]
Moses Odumbe, the missing KCPE 2019 exam marker from Homa Bay County, has been found, K24 Digital can authoritatively report. [PHOTO | COURTESY]

Moses Odumbe, the missing KCPE 2019 exam marker from Homa Bay County, has been found, K24 Digital can authoritatively report.

Odumbe, a teacher at Kogana Primary School, was found semiconscious on a street in Nairobi CBD on Tuesday, November 26. He was, thereafter, taken to Kamukunji Police Station, where he requested for a phone to call his relatives.

One of the teacher’s kinspersons arrived at the police post and took Moses Odumbe to Nairobi Women’s Hospital, off Ngong Road, where he is currently receiving treatment.

A well-placed source within the DCI circles told K24 Digital that Odumbe revealed he had been staying at a hotel in Nairobi throughout the exam-marking period.  Odumbe allegedly said he would often drink alcohol later in the evening.

The teacher further revealed that he shifted to two other hotels after the exam-marking exercise was over. The DCI detective, who spoke to us on condition of anonymity, said Odumbe claimed he could not remember the names of the two hotels he was recently staying in.

Moses Odumbe left his home in Karabondi, Homa Bay County on November 8 to mark the 2019 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations in Nairobi. His family had hoped he would return home soon after the exercise. That did not happen.

The teacher at Kogana Primary in Rachuonyo North Sub-county allegedly switched off his phones after reaching the marking centre in Nairobi.

Until he was found on Tuesday, November 26, – 18 days later – his phone had remained switched off.

Odumbe’s wife, Joyce Odumbe, said her husband arrived in Nairobi on November 9 and met a relative.

“Upon arriving in the capital city, he spent the night of November 9 at his relative’s house in Kikuyu Township before going to the KCPE exams marking centre at St. George's Girls’ High School on November 10,” the mother-of-six said. 

Joyce said her spouse later left St. George's School for his hotel room.

According to the teacher’s wife, Odumbe later met one of his sons, a student at JKUAT. Since then, he was unreachable on phone, said Joyce.

Joyce’s calls for her husband to be found came after the 2019 KCPE results were released on November 18.

“By the time the (KCPE) exam results were being released, my husband should have returned home because marking exercise had ended," said Joyce Odumbe.

The distressed wife had told K24 Digital that her husband’s relatives had looked for him in many hospitals and morgues in Nairobi without success.

Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the said-disappearance of the teacher.

K24 Digital understands that the teacher has been admitted in a ward on the second floor of Nairobi Women’s Hospital – Adam’s, off Ngong Road.