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Detectives have arrested a woman who faked her own kidnapping and demanded Sh200,000 ransom from her husband.
Jane Wairimu Ndung’u disappeared last Friday, leaving her husband Brian Mutuku worried about her whereabouts.
Hours after she went missing, Mutuku received a phone call from his wife who sounded terrified, claiming she had been kidnapped by unknown people who were demanding Sh200,000 in exchange for her freedom.
Wairimu told her husband that she was abducted while walking along Loita Street in Nairobi CBD, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
“The worried husband immediately filed a missing person’s report at DCI Embakasi. However, as the detectives were pursuing the suspects, Wairimu’s kin and the husband raised Sh17,000 and sent it to the alleged kidnappers,” DCI said in a report.
DCI added: “Unbeknownst to them, Wairimu had eloped with a cab driver to his one-roomed abode in Malaa, where they were enjoying soft life unperturbed after withdrawing the sent amount.”
As days went by, the family became impatient and formed a WhatsApp group to raise funds towards her release, and a further Sh40,000 was sent on Monday.
Wairimu and the cab driver traveled from Malaa to Mtito-a-Ndei to withdraw the money, ostensibly to distract detectives who were on their trail.
As detectives were about to pounce on the two, there was a sudden turn of events. The cab driver Richard Mogire had promised his 21-year-old girlfriend, a student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), that he would take her out over the weekend.
“The girlfriend kept calling and sending him messages asking him why he had stood her up. Mogire tried to explain that he would make it up to her this coming weekend but she would hear none of it and demanded that he picks her up, lest she leaves him,” the report reads.
Afraid of losing his girlfriend, Mogire changed the vehicle he was earlier using to avoid detection and picked her from JKUAT main campus, and went with her to the one-roomed house where he had stayed with Wairimu since her faked disappearance.
Following their arrest in Sagana on Wednesday evening, detectives established that three had stayed together in the one-roomed house since Monday.
“How Mogire convinced his campus girl to hang on and play ball yet she wasn’t part of the initial plan, still remains a puzzle,” DCI adds.
Wairimu told detectives that she faked her disappearance to get away from creditors, who were on her neck since she lost her job.
The three are set to be arraigned in court on Thursday.
Jane Wairimu Ndung’u disappeared last Friday, leaving her husband Brian Mutuku worried about her whereabouts.
Hours after she went missing, Mutuku received a phone call from his wife who sounded terrified, claiming she had been kidnapped by unknown people who were demanding Sh200,000 in exchange for her freedom.
Wairimu told her husband that she was abducted while walking along Loita Street in Nairobi CBD, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
“The worried husband immediately filed a missing person’s report at DCI Embakasi. However, as the detectives were pursuing the suspects, Wairimu’s kin and the husband raised Sh17,000 and sent it to the alleged kidnappers,” DCI said in a report.
DCI added: “Unbeknownst to them, Wairimu had eloped with a cab driver to his one-roomed abode in Malaa, where they were enjoying soft life unperturbed after withdrawing the sent amount.”
As days went by, the family became impatient and formed a WhatsApp group to raise funds towards her release, and a further Sh40,000 was sent on Monday.
Wairimu and the cab driver traveled from Malaa to Mtito-a-Ndei to withdraw the money, ostensibly to distract detectives who were on their trail.
As detectives were about to pounce on the two, there was a sudden turn of events. The cab driver Richard Mogire had promised his 21-year-old girlfriend, a student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), that he would take her out over the weekend.
“The girlfriend kept calling and sending him messages asking him why he had stood her up. Mogire tried to explain that he would make it up to her this coming weekend but she would hear none of it and demanded that he picks her up, lest she leaves him,” the report reads.
Afraid of losing his girlfriend, Mogire changed the vehicle he was earlier using to avoid detection and picked her from JKUAT main campus, and went with her to the one-roomed house where he had stayed with Wairimu since her faked disappearance.
Following their arrest in Sagana on Wednesday evening, detectives established that three had stayed together in the one-roomed house since Monday.
“How Mogire convinced his campus girl to hang on and play ball yet she wasn’t part of the initial plan, still remains a puzzle,” DCI adds.
Wairimu told detectives that she faked her disappearance to get away from creditors, who were on her neck since she lost her job.
The three are set to be arraigned in court on Thursday.