Residents of Bondeni slum area in handed over a ten year old boy to the Police station this morning.
According to Njoro police boss Patrick Lai residents the boy was found stranded by a resident yesterday night. The resident offered the boy food and accommodation for the night.
Lai added that the boy upon being questioned claimed that he came from Vihiga aboard a bus and alighted in Njoro by mistake after thinking he had reached Nakuru town which was his destination.
The boy identified himself as Emmanuel Miheso, a standard three pupil at Chavavo Primary School lives with his grandmother in Vihigo.
The police source said the boy claimed that his grandmother had urged him to come to Nakuru to look for his mother and that he did not pay any money in the bus.
“According to what he told the good Samaritans it seems that the minor was traveling from upcountry in Western Kenya in search of his other relatives in Nakuru after his grandmother became unable to sustain him,” said Lai.