A family in Njoro is agonising and suffering after their eight-year-old daughter was kidnapped 11 days ago and is yet to be found.
Anne Njoki, a class two pupils at Kerma Primary School in Njoro, was left home together with her ageing grandfather on a Saturday only for her to go missing mysteriously.
“We left our daughter at home on Saturday together with her grandfather as we proceeded to the farm and on returning home at 3 pm, she was missing,” the child’s mother Mrs Veronica Wanjiru said.
The incident has caused confusion and anxiety to the family and neighbours. They are calling on the police to help trace their daughter.
According to Wanjiru, her daughter is an outspoken and jovial girl who has no tendency of leaving home alone.
She said that their neighbourhood has experienced an increase in vehicles movement due to sale of plots and land. Wanjiru said they had gathered reports that their daughter could have been kidnapped by two people who were on a motorbike.
The tearful mother said all effort to trace her have been futile adding that some evil people were taking advantage of their situation to demand cash in order to release her.
“We had announced her disappearance through media and later received a text from someone who claimed to be holding our daughter. He demanded Sh1,000 and then directed us to London Estate in Nakuru and later to GK Prisons area and we did not find her,” she said.
They reported the issue to Nakuru CID offices but they claim the officers did not follow the owner of the phone used to send the message.
Robert Ndirangu, the father of the minor pleaded with anybody with information on the whereabouts of their only daughter to assist them.
“We are suffering and traumatised by the disappearance of our only daughter. We miss you and we need you home,” he said.