Police are holding a house girl for allegedly kidnapping a child in Uthiru Estate, Nairobi.

The woman had been taking care of the one-and-a-half-year-old boy for more than six months before she fell out with the parents, who kicked her out.

She sneaked back to the house and kidnapped the boy last Thursday. Police said the woman then used accomplices to call the boy’s parents and demand a Sh2 million ransom. But the callers scaled down their demands to Sh200,000 after negotiations.

The parents alerted the police who traced the kidnappers to Njiru, but they relocated. Police arrested the woman in Eastleigh on Wednesday evening where she had been hiding with the child.

Police also arrested the woman’s parents on Thursday for questioning.

Gigiri OCPD David Kerina said the parents might have had knowledge of the incident.

Separately, a judge escaped a carjacking ordeal by a whisker when gunmen took control of his car in Nairobi and robbed his driver.

Justice Moijo ole Keiwa of East African Court of Justice had walked into a supermarket on Wednesday night when three gunmen struck.

Keiwa had left his driver in the car to shop at the supermarket on Ngong Road when the incident occurred.

The gangsters forced themselves into the vehicle at gunpoint and ordered the driver to drive to Dagorreti, Lavington and to Kileleshwa where they used the judge’s car to block and rob other motorists.

The judge alerted police of the missing car and later called for another vehicle to take him home. Police launched a search for the car, but the driver surfaced saying he had been carjacked. He said the attackers robbed him of his mobile phone and Sh70 and abandoned him in Kileleshwa unharmed.

Nairobi PPO Anthony Kibuchi said no arrest had been made, but a hunt for the gang had been launched.

"We have profiled them and for now we are hunting them down," he said.

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