A female univarsity student who was kidnapped on 26th January 2023 has been rescued by detectives after being held hostage for five days.
Daisy Chebet Barno, a fourth year Egerton University student, was kidnapped by three men in Kabarak, Nakuru County and taken to an unknown destination, leaving her family in anguish.
Unknown yo Daisy, her friend Faith Mwende who also happens to be her course mate had conspired with her boyfriend and other thugs to kidnap Daisy and demand ransome for her supposed to be well off family.
On the day of her kidnapping, Daisy had been invited for late lunch by Mwende's boyfriend Simon Akuteka, 39, a Rwandese national.
After being convinced that Mwende would be joining them later, she obliged and entered Akuteka's car, which after investigations, the detectives discovered to be from a car hire agent based in Nairobi.
Akuteka then drove towards Kabarak after excusing himself to pick a parcel. However along the way he stopped the car suddenly and two unknown men got into the car.
The trio then informed Daisy that she had been kidnapped and demanded a sum of Ksh 600,000 from her parents as ransome.
They then drove to Ruiru at around OJ restaurant, where they took a 2 bedroom Airbnb and locked Daisy in one of the rooms. Mwende who had since joined them, took the other room where that made merry with her boyfriend after Daisy's parents sent an initial ksh50,000.
Unknown to the thugs, detectives who had received a distress call from Daisy's parents had been following their movements keenly as they operated between Thika, Murang'a, Ruiru and Kajiado during the day as they hoped to outwit the police.
But the sleuths who are based at the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau went after the four with a stealth of a leopard and finally pounced on them last night at the apartment.
A brief altercation ensued after the officers introduced themselves when the thugs engaged the detectives on a fistfight.
Following the successful raid supported by DCI drawn from Nakuru and Ruiru, all the four suspects were arrested and Daisy rescued.
Preliminary investigations have proved that the prime suspect Simon Akuteka and his accomplices John Mbau, 38,are fugitives who has several cases including stealing of motor vehicles pending in Nairobi and Kisumu.
Where as Chege, 31,is a small miscreant based at witeithie, who had just been introduced into serious crimes.
Faith Mwende, was also arrested and is now a guest of the state.
Source: DCI