Nairobi — An Egerton University lecturer who has been missing for the past week was yesterday found alive in Garsen, Tana River district.

Dr Wycliffe Wanyonyi Saenyi, the dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology had been missing for nine days.

The university administration and his family on Sunday sought police assistance to trace him after efforts to establish his whereabouts failed.

Dr Saenyi disappeared from his home at Nakuru Workers Estate on August 26, this year moments after he took some drinks in a local pub.

Yesterday, the Rift Valley Provincial Police Officer, Mr Everett Wasige, confirmed that the lecturer had been found at Garsen.

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"It is true that we have found him and at the moment we are liaising with our colleagues at the Coast Province to get more details about the disappearance of this lecturer and thereafter we shall brief you (Press)," said Mr Wasige.

At Egerton's Njoro Campus, lecturers and subordinate staff hugged each other in celebration after the agonising one week as they feared for his life after it was suspected that he might have been abducted by criminals.

His family and colleagues made an appeal to the police Commissioner Maj Gen Hussein Ali to help trace him after he went missing under mysterious circumstances.