Several online sources say that a Kenyan man named Nemwel Ondari was arrested for kidnapping his 8-year-old stepson and trying to get money from his wife.
Local news outlets covered the story and said that agents from Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations saved the child (DCI). DCI, the boy’s mother, says that Everline Nandera told the Embakasi police station that the boy had “disappeared.”
She said that her husband, Ondari, had sent her a note asking for Ksh50,000 (N181,000) in exchange for the child’s freedom. Everline said that her 32-year-old husband would have killed the boy if she hadn’t paid the supposed ransom.
The DCI said, “Nandera told police that she had left their home in the Tel Aviv area of Embakasi at the crack of dawn and was going to Muthurwa market. But when she got home at 9:20 a.m., both her husband and son were gone.
“The husband, Nemwel Ondari, left a note saying that he wanted Sh50,000 in exchange for the boy’s freedom. In the note, the man also told his wife that if she did anything silly with the boy, he would kill him with a kitchen knife he was carrying.
After hearing about the situation, security agents went on a rescue mission and caught the suspect at the NMS Green Park matatu terminus off Haile Sellasie Avenue in Nairobi.
The report went on to say, “As soon as the woman filed her report at the Embakasi police station, detectives from the elite Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) in the DCI Nairobi area got together and started looking for the suspect.”
“The detectives, with help from their colleagues in Embakasi, tracked down the suspect and arrested him a few hours later at the NMS Green Park matatu terminus off Haile Sellasie avenue, as he eagerly waited for the ransom to be put into his Mpesa account.”
The police also said that an early investigation showed that the couple’s fight the night before led to the incident.
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