A
couple was arrested after a kidnap claim was reported to police in a love
triangle saga in Nairobi.
Detectives
have since established the saga, which involved a couple and a boyfriend to the woman.
The
boyfriend lives in Nairobi while the woman and her husband or the father of her
two children live in Narok.
The
saga started on November 9,
2024, when the boyfriend made a report at Kitusuru Police Station saying that his wife had been kidnapped by unknown people.
He said the
people had promised the woman a job opportunity but were instead demanding a
ransom of Sh150,000.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigation’s
Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) and Operations teams embarked on
the assignment to rescue the victim, and on November 13, 2024, they arrested
one suspect in the Gitaru area, Kiambu County.
It had
been reported that his mobile phone number was used to demand the ransom, which
later turned out to be false.
He was
freed as the search for the missing woman went on.
On November 16, 2024, they got a lead leading to Oldonyo Orok, Narok South where the victim's number was last located.
The
police found the woman in her husband’s house with their two daughters.
The
husband told police he did not know anything to do
with the kidnap claims.
Police
say preliminarily investigations have established that there was no kidnapping but
rather love affairs, love triangle and family issues.
Consequently, the couple was arrested and
escorted to Nairobi for further interrogation, statement taking, and processing,
police spokesperson Dr Resla Onyango said.
She said it is an offence under Section 129 of the Penal Code for anybody
to give false information to a Public Officer, in this case, police officers.
“We will
also talk to the man in Nairobi as part of the probe into the saga,” she said.
The boyfriend said he had a missed call and when he called back, he found it was his alleged lover who claimed she had been put in a probox car and was around the Maasai Mara area.
The abductors later called, demanding a ransom, he claimed.
"I saw a new number, and a woman was crying. Then someone took the phone and said, "Send 150K, or I’ll send you a body instead," the boyfriend said.
The case was similar to one in September 2024, when three teenagers were arrested for a fake kidnapping attempt in a bid to defraud Sh6 million from the parents of one of their accomplices in Meru County.
The teens, two boys, and a girl, hatched the plot in a get-rich-quick scheme that was quickly foiled by police officers drawn from Imenti North.
They were later busted and reprimanded.
