Five Suspects Arrested for Kidnapping a Nairobi Man and Demanding Sh100,000 Ransom

Detectives in Nairobi have arrested five suspects for kidnapping a man and demanding a ransom to set him free.

Joseph Makau Mulatya, Patrick Wekesa Omosa, Rehema Njeri, Vigilance Mumbi, and Hadija Ong’ai were apprehended by sleuths from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) who stormed a house where one of the victims was being held hostage.

The officers found the victim stark naked as the five suspects waited for his family to send Sh100,000 via Mpesa to set him free. The man had called his relatives claiming that he had been involved in a road accident and needed the money for treatment. 

Detectives who had followed cyber forensic leads to the house where the victim was being held linked the crime to an incident that occurred last month where a man was accosted in Parklands and robbed of Sh450,000.

DCI divulged that women are now luring unsuspecting male victims from social media sites before leading them to a room where they are held hostage and asked to buy their freedom. 

They mainly target men of Caucasian origin whom they lure to a house behind Ruaraka’s Naivas supermarket, with a promise of offering them sexual favors. 

“But moments before they get down, a rude knock suddenly interrupts the occasion as a man posing as a boyfriend to one of the women suddenly appears, throwing a spanner in the works of an eventful evening,” the DCI added.

The five suspects are being held in custody awaiting arraignment to answer to robbery with violence charges.