Thursday, November 2, 2023 –Detectives have rescued two tertiary level students – 21 years old – who went missing on October 27, 2023 in abduction incident.
It is reported that the two were lured to their kidnappers’ hands by a female suspect who sweet-talked them to the AirBnB situated at Elgon View apartment in Kitengela Town, Machakos County.
In the DCI report, the two male suspects who held them hostage while demanding for sh 6 million ransom from their parents have now been arrested in the operation led by DCI’s Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau detectives.
The suspects, Brian Ombasa Omoso, 25 and Humphrey Hinga, 22, who have since been put under police custody are believed to have been working jointly with the female dangerous damsel on the loose to identify and lure targeted victims.
In the police OB report dated on Oct 29 filed at Kiambu Police Station, the lady who identified herself to the victims as Debbie Zablon separately lured the duo for a meet-up at a common venue in Nairobi, where the abduction followed.
Taking up the matter, the crime researchers reasoned with the distressed parents while subjecting all possible leads to forensic analysis. In their findings, it emerged that the female accomplice had used a stolen ID card to register the line which she used to communicate with the male students to their trap.
“Relentless search for the victims finally paid off when the terrified hunger-stricken duo was reunited with their kin, but not without a lesson of the existence of masquerades who will do anything for money,” partly read the DCI report.
The police found out that the legitimate owner of the ID card had earlier reported its loss at Lang’ata Police Station.
An imitation of a pistol, a dagger, subscriber sim cards used to contact the parents, fake front and rear car registration plates (KDD 881M) believed to have been used during their transportation and assorted tools were also recovered from the hostage room.
Detectives had a challenging moment leading the suspects to the waiting police car, as curious locals thronged the arrest scene.
The DCI officers, meanwhile, have launched a manhunt for the female suspect who is still on loose.