Detectives in Kenya have rescued an 8-year-old boy who was abducted by his stepfather and reunited him with his distraught mother.
Nemwel Ondari, the suspect, abducted the boy early on Saturday, November 12, following a domestic dispute with his wife, Everline Nandera.
The suspect was apprehended after the boy's worried mother reported the incident to the Embakasi police station at around 9:30 am.
In a declaration made by the Directorate of Criminal
Nemwel Ondari, the 32-year-old wife, had left a note requesting Sh50,000 as a ransom for the boy's release. Investigations- DCI, the suspect demanded and threatened to kill the boy
with a kitchen knife if the wife didn’t act fast.
“Nandera told detectives that she had left their home in Embakasi’s Tel
Aviv area at the crack of dawn, headed for Muthurwa market,” the
statement read. But upon coming back at around 9:20am, she found her
husband and son missing.
In the note, the man also warned his wife that he would kill the boy using a kitchen knife which he had carried, should she try any monkey business. Immediately the woman filled her report at Embakasi police station, detectives from the elite Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) based at DCI Nairobi area were assembled and a manhunt for the suspect was launched.
The detectives assisted by their Embakasi counterparts traced the suspect and arrested him at the NMS Green Park matatu terminus off Haile Sellasie avenue, a few hours later.
The detectives discovered that the pair had a contentious disagreement the previous evening, and that the guy packed his clothes and a kitchen knife in two bags before leaving with the boy before Everline went early the next morning to care for her family in Muthurwa.