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Blogger Bogonko Bosire still missing, about two years since disappearing

Bogonko Bosire
Bogonko Bosire

On Sunday 7th of June, a trending topic #WhereIsBogonkoBosire brought to memory something we may have forgotten in recent times. Controversial blogger and journalist Bogonko Bosire has been missing since September 18, 2013, gone without a trace. He made a name as a fearless blogger who wrote on the ICC case facing the President and his deputy. He rubbed the mighty and powerful the wrong way many times with some of the stories that he published on his blog The Jackal News. A look up on his website shows that the domain is no longer active.

His disappearance was actively pursued in the mainstream and online media. With conspiracies emerging that the state or the ICC has a hand in his vanishing. Since then, there has been a Facebook update on his page from the Hague and more rumors that he may have been seen in Congo.

Bogonko Bosire Tweets
Bogonko Bosire Tweets

His disappearance remains one of the unsolved mysteries of the recent times as it is alleged that he may have met with some ICC investigators before he disappeared. Was he forced into hiding or was he taken out of the picture by dark forces?

Further compounding this, his twitter account was active for a period during when he was missing. Posting cryptic clues and questions as to what may have happened and confirming his death. His disappearance, either by design or by other forces show the dangers bloggers, freelance journalists and those working in small media houses face. There are forces actively working against freedom of expression in Kenya.

It started with the question that many have been asking, just where is Bogonko Bosire?

The responsibility for finding was placed firmly in the hands of the government, which according to sentiments, is not doing enough to find him.

Many more put up theories as to where and why he could be missing. From police cells,

Some still remember the man as most say, he was an intelligent and talented journalist who was never shy of controversy.

The spirit and desire to find Bosire lives on. What happened to him could happen to other journalists and bloggers and it would curtail freedom of expression.

Will Bosire ever be found? What else can we hold onto but hope?

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