Police in Kenya has arrested a woman who eloped with a young man and claimed to have been kidnapped.
Jane Wairimu Ndung’u disappeared last Friday, September 17, leaving her husband Brian Mutuku worried about her whereabouts.
Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said that Mutuku received a call from his wife, who sounded panic-stricken, claiming to have been kidnapped by unknown people who were demanding Sh200,000 ($2000) as ransom. She claimed to have been abducted as she walked along Loita street in Nairobi’s central business district.
The worried husband immediately filed a missing person’s report at DCI Embakasi. However, as the detectives pursued the suspects, Wairimu’s kin and the husband raised Sh17,000 ($170) and sent it to the alleged kidnappers.
“Unbeknownst to them, Wairimu had eloped with a cab driver to his one-roomed abode in Malaa, where they were enjoying soft life unperturbed, after withdrawing the sent amount. As days went by, the family became impatient and formed a WhatsApp group to make contributions towards her release. A further Sh40,000 was sent on Monday and the two travelled from Malaa to Mtito-a-Ndei to withdraw the money, ostensibly to distract our eagle-eyed detectives who were on their trail,” said DCI.
As the detectives from Special Service Unit and Crime Research & Intelligence Bureau were about to pounce on the duo, there was a sudden turn of events. The alleged kidnapper Richard Mogire had promised his 21-year-old girlfriend, a student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, that he would take her out over the weekend.
Therefore, his girlfriend kept calling and sending him messages asking him why he had stood her up. Mogire tried to explain that he would make it up to her this coming weekend, but she would hear none of it and demanded that he picks her up lest she leaves him.
Afraid of losing his main, Mogire, who is a man of many abilities, changed the vehicle he was earlier using to avoid detection, picked his lovestruck main
girlfriend from the Juja based university, and went with her to the one-roomed house where he had stayed with Wairimu since her faked disappearance.
“As detectives later established after arresting them, the three had stayed together in the one roomed abode since Monday, until today afternoon when they were apprehended in Sagana. How Mogire convinced his campus girl to hang on and play ball yet she wasn’t part of the initial plan, still remains a puzzle,” added DCI.
Wairimu explained that she had forced her disappearance to get away from creditors, who were on her neck since she lost her job.
The DCI has warned public members to desist from such actions and seek alternative problem-solving mechanisms.
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