A Kenyan police officer who vanished and was subsequently fired for desertion and had an arrest warrant issued for him, was actually an unknown patient in the main hospital who was in a coma.
"A Kenyan police officer has woken up from a nine-month coma to find he had been sacked for desertion.
Neither the family nor the police force had any idea where Constable Reuben Kimutai Lel was - his niece told the BBC they thought he was dead.
But it turns out that he had been the victim of a road accident and had been in one of the country's biggest hospitals all along.
He only regained consciousness last week.
His niece Joan Jeptoo told the BBC of the family's horror as they searched for his body in morgues after they had given up on his chances of being alive.
At one point they almost collected a decomposing body from a morgue that was said to be him.
"We thought he was dead because his phone was off. Early this year we went to collect a body that we were told resembled him, but the fingerprints didn't match," she said.
The police officer was admitted on 21 December 2020 as an unknown person at the main referral hospital in the capital, Nairobi. He had no identity documents with him.
Meanwhile, he was sacked from his job, charged in absentia with desertion and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The case was later withdrawn after police failed to find him."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58681463