A key suspect linked to the abduction of a woman along Likoni Road in Nairobi identified as Abdullahi Mohamed Guled has been arrested by a team of Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives.
According to the DCI the arrest follows an intense search by the detectives after a missing person report was made at Industrial area police station.
In a Monday October 16 statement, the DCI noted that the victim was on her way to JKIA from Eastleigh when the taxi she was travelling in was stopped by a driver of another vehicle that was trailing them.
“The missing person’s report was made by a taxi driver on October 12, 2023. The victim, Shakara Adan Hassan was heading to JKIA from Eastleigh when the taxi she was travelling in was stopped by a driver of another vehicle that was trailing them,” the statement reads in part.
The abduction by fake police officers
Moreover, after stopping, two individuals posing as police officers ordered Shakara to board their vehicle and head to Shauri Moyo police station for interrogation.
They left the taxi driver at the scene.
Nonetheless, preliminary investigations revealed that the said individuals were not police officers and the victim had not been booked at any police station within Nairobi region.
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Further investigations led a team of DCI detectives from DCI Nairobi regional headquarters including DCI Makadara, DCI Imenti North and DCI Igembe Central to Maua town where they managed to arrest the key suspect.
Additionally, the suspect led the detectives to an abandoned residential house at Kachiongo within the outskirts of Maua town upon intense interrogation, where the victim was rescued.
DCI detectives also recovered a vehicle suspected to have been used during the abduction.
The victim was taken to hospital for medical checks as efforts to trace the other suspects are ongoing.
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The taxi driver arrested
Police officers had previously arrested he taxi driver and booked him in for interrogation. This is after the taxi driver seemed to give conflicting reports on the incident.
Nevertheless, a section of Northeastern leaders has decried the rates of missing persons in the country.
“These disappearances used to be in the last government, in this government we thought they would come to an end and here we are,” Mandera East MP Hussein Waitan stated while appealing to the government to do something about the issue.
Lagdera MP Abdikadir Mohammed also commented calling on President William Ruto to crack the whip in a bid to reduce the rates of missing persons cases in the country.
