A married woman who eloped with a younger man and claimed to have been kidnapped has been arrested.
Jane Wairimu Ndung’u disappeared on September 17, leaving her husband Brian Mutuku unawares.
DCI Director George Kinoti said Mutuku received a call from his wife who sounded panic stricken.
“She claimed to have been kidnapped by unknown people who were demanding Sh200,000 as ransom,” Kinoti said.
According to Ndung’u, she had been kidnapped as she was walking along Loita street, in Nairobi’s central business district.
It was at this moment that Mutuku filed a missing person’s report at DCI Embakasi.
“However, as the detectives were pursuing the suspects, Wairimu’s kin and the husband raised Sh17,000 and sent it to the alleged kidnappers,” he said.
However, Wairimu had eloped with a cab driver to Malaa after withdrawing the amount.
“As days went by, the family became impatient and formed a WhatsApp group to make contributions towards her release,” Kinoti said.
A further Sh40,000 was sent on Monday and the two traveled from Malaa to Mtito-a-Ndei to withdraw the money.
Kinoti said the alleged kidnapper – Richard Mogire- had also promised his 21-year-old girlfriend that he would take her out over the weekend.
“The girlfriend kept calling and sending him messages asking him why he had stood her up,” Kinoti said.
Mogire tried to explain that he would make it up to her but the girlfriend threatened to leave him.
“Mogire changed the vehicle he was earlier using to avoid detection, picked his main girlfriend from the Juja based university and went with her to the one roomed house where he had stayed with Wairimu since her disappearance,” he said.
The three stayed together in the one roomed abode since Monday, until when they were apprehended in Sagana on Wednesday evening.
“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,” he said.
Upon interrogation, Wairimu explained that she had forced her disappearance to get away from creditors, who were on her neck since she lost her job.
The three are currently at Embakasi police station.
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