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CPJ, May 23, 2013 -- Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo should identify the motive behind the murder of a radio presenter who was found on Friday after being missing for 12 days, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Guillain Chanjabo, 58, a presenter with youth-based community station Radio Canal Revelation, was last seen on May 5 while he was on his way to the radio station in the northeastern city of Bunia, news reports said. He was found partially clothed with stab wounds in his head, back, stomach, and legs in the Ngezi River, a few miles from Bunia, according to news reports and his employer. Jacques Sezabo, the medical director of Bunia's General Hospital, told local journalists that he had also been strangled, the reports said.

Richard Pituwa, director of the station, told CPJ that Chanjabo, a volunteer with the station since 2004, had rarely undertaken reporting assignments on sensitive topics but mainly translated and presented programs in Swahili. The programs focused on general issues including politics, corruption, impunity, crime, and human rights abuses.