On the day, abductors set billionaire Jaswant Singh Rai free President William Ruto waded into the matter wondering who the businessman is to have a chokehold on the sugar industry.

The President who was addressing crowds in Western Kenya promised to break sugar cartels with the name of Rai being dropped in abandon.

Monday, the businessman maintained his silence as a bank executive to the Mumias Sugar Company lease battles was grilled. He remained coy about his ordeal in the hands of the abductors who released him on Sunday night.

Rai was seized along Wood Avenue on Friday by armed men who blocked his car before bundling him in their getaway vehicle.

A source said Rai had intimated to one of his lawyers that he was held in confinement not far from where he was abducted at around 5.42pm.

“He says where he was held hostage is not more than a kilometre from where he was abducted,” said the source.