Wahala don finish: Man kidnaps his stepson and demands ransom from his wife
According to multiple sources online, one Nemwel Ondari, a Kenyan father, was detained for kidnapping his 8-year-old stepson and extorting money from his wife.
Local media highlighted the report and said Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations agents saved the young kid (DCI). Everline Nandera reported the boy’s “disappearance” to the Embakasi police station, according to DCI, the boy’s mother.
She revealed that her husband, Ondari, had sent a note to her requesting Ksh50,000 (N181,000) as a ransom to free the child. Everline claimed that if she didn’t pay the alleged ransom, her 32-year-old husband would have killed the boy.
The DCI said; “Nandera told detectives that she had left their home in Embakasi’s Tel Aviv area at the crack of dawn, headed for Muthurwa market. But upon coming back at around 9:20 am, she found her husband and son missing.
“A note had been left behind by the husband Nemwel Ondari, 32, demanding a ransom of Sh50,000, for the release of the boy. In the note, the man also warned his wife that he would kill the boy using a kitchen knife which he had carried, should she try any monkey business.”
Security operatives embarked on a rescue mission after receiving the report, and subsequently nabbed the suspect was nabbed at the NMS Green Park matatu terminus off Haile Sellasie Avenue in Nairobi.
The report added; “Immediately the woman filled her report at Embakasi police station, detectives from the elite Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) based at DCI Nairobi area were assembled and a manhunt for the suspect was launched.
“The detectives assisted by their Embakasi counterparts traced the suspect and arrested him at the NMS Green Park matatu terminus off Haile Sellasie avenue, a few hours later as he eagerly waited for the ransom to be deposited into his Mpesa account”.
The authorities also said preliminary investigation established that a heated disagreement the couple had the previous night led to the incident.
