BY MWANAHABARI REPORTER
A family in Nairobi has expressed its gratitude to a female police pilot for saving their two children from the hands of a kidnapper.
The suspect, whom the police have identified as Jackson Mutinda aged 31, allegedly lured the two girls from their house in Nairobi’s Muthurwa area with a promise to buy the soda.
Police are still trying to investigate circumstances under which the stranger was able to lure the children from their home – and shepherding them to Lang’ata.
“Jackson Mutinda was arrested at Shell petrol station along Lang’ata road, as he walked with the girls to a yet to be established location,” said Kinoti on Monday, September 20.
According to Kinoto, the two girls were rescued by Chief Inspector Justine Ouya, an aircraft engineer at the National Police Service Airwing.
Just landed
Ouya had just landed from a troops resupply mission – when she bumped into the man and the two girls looking lost.
“She was walking along Lang’ata road, when she came across the man holding the two girls by their hands. He was walking with the minors towards Karen direction.”
“After observing him and the little girls briefly, her intuition as a police officer coupled by her motherly instincts led her to being suspicious. She immediately stopped the man and interrogated him.”
The man is said to lied to Ouya that he was their father, but when she poke to the minors, they said that the man was not their father.
Charged with child trafficking
“Mutinda was immediately restrained. After interrogating the abductor, it was discovered that he had lured the little angels from their home in Muthurwa, promising to buy them a soda,” Kinoto said.
The parents of the children were later traced to Muthurwa. The suspect will be charged with Child Trafficking.
Since the beginning of the year, news of children being abducted, murdered has left parents fearful and heartbroken.