Nairobi, September 20

Police in Nairobi are holding a middle aged man accused of abducting two minors. Jackson Mutinda, 31, was arrested on Sunday, September 19 with the two minors by a police officer attached to the National Police Service Airwing.

According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, the two girls, aged 3 and 4 years, were rescued from the man who had allegedly abducted them from their homes and was ferrying them to an unknown destination.

The DCI adds that Mr Mutinda lured the girls from their home as they played.

"The innocent angels had been lured from their home as they played by one Jackson Mutinda, 31, who was arrested at shell petrol station along Langata road, as he walked with the girls to a yet to be established location," noted the DCI.

Justine Ouya, a Chief Inspector of Police working as an aircraft engineer at the National Police Service Airwing located at the Wilson Airport and had just landed from a troops resupply mission, spotted the man with the two girls along Langata Road and decided to question him.

"She (Ouya) came across the man holding the two girls by their hands. He was walking with the minors towards Karen direction," noted the DCI.

"After observing him and the little girls briefly, her intuition as a police officer coupled by her motherly instincts led her to being suspicious. She immediately stopped the man and interrogated him."

The officer's conversation with the minors and established that the man was not their father as he had alleged, leading to her restraining him.

"Chief Inspector Ouya immediately restrained the man and raised the duty officer based at Wilson Airport, who responded with a contingent of officers instantly."

Upon interrogating the alleged abductor, police officers discovered that he had lured the little girls from their home in Muthurwa, promising to buy them a soda.

"The officers immediately set off for Muthurwa, in search of the parents to the minors. After a few hours, the distraught parents to the angels identified as Judy Nyakio and Teresia Njeri, were finally traced, desperately looking for their missing girls," added the DCI.

After the parents were united with their minors, the suspect was booked at Langata Police Station where he was processed pending arraignment on Child Trafficking charges.