Detectives from Director of Criminal Investigations say they are ready to solve confusions surrounding identity of two girls from Kakamega believed to have been separated at birth.
On Thursday, a statement from DCI instructed all the parents involved in the quagmire to report to regional offices to facilitate active investigations towards the puzzle which has reportedly affected all the players.
“Our attention has been drawn to the much publicized Kakamega twin puzzle and we are committed to launching forensic investigation into the matter.”
This is part of a statement released from the desk of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations on Thursday morning, in response to the trending Kakamega twins riddle involving two families.
“We believe forensic investigation will establish if any criminal act was committed or any mitigating circumstances that may have led to the present status,” statement reads partly, adding: “We encourage and appeal to the families concerned to please report to DCI office in Kakamega to facilitate investigations.”
Richard Olukhakha and Rosemary Onyango, a couple from Kakamega County believe Sharon Mathias, a 19-year-old girl raised by Angeline Omina who resides in Kangemi, Nairobi, is their daughter.
Sharon bears striking resemblance with Melon Lutonya, a daughter to Mr Olukhakha and is said to have been born at Kakamega Referral Hospital on August 15th, 1999. Sharon is said to have been born also in the hospital two days earlier.
Already, Mr Olukhakha said he took the two girls together with the third one, Mevis, who his family has been thinking all along that was Melon's twin sister, for a blood group test and all turned to be O negative.
Kemri, the government lead researcher, has agreed to facilitate DNA tests to ascertain the identity of the three girls in question. They come from Likuyani in Kakamega County.
It is believed that nurses at Kakamega hospital may have accidentally swapped Mevis for Sharon, since the two children were born underweight thus taken to the incubator for few days.
A serious of events led to unearthing of the puzzle, 19 years after the birth of the three girls who are in Form Four. Contacts between Melon's school and that of Sharon lead to the shocking discovery as teachers and classmates of both raised questions of the existence of the other, leading to sole effort from Melon to look for her twin sister.
Another puzzle that needs to be addressed is if Mevis could be the child born by Angeline Omina or she's Olukhakha daughter since Mrs Onyango had been told earlier that she was going to deliver triplets.