Delight as twenty-one-year-old abducted man resurfaces

By Michael Wesonga

ELDORET; KENYA: A man, 21, who went missing two weeks ago in Eldoret resurfaced under unclear circumstances.

David Nakain returned to his parent’s Outspan home to the delight of his devastated kin.

Nakain said he was kidnapped while waiting for a matatu on May 19.   “I was on the road desperately stopping any approaching vehicle because I could not clearly distinguish between personal cars or matatus as it was already dark,” he explained.

A Toyota Probox stopped and a police officer alighted and asked him where he was going. He then invited him in the vehicle.

“I did not clearly see his face, but I saw that he wore boots and a jungle trouser and he was armed with a rifle. In the vehicle, there were three other officers,” Nakain said.

He recounted that he later found himself in a dark room. “They snatched my phone and asked me if I knew my parent’s phone numbers. I gave them that of my father, from then henceforth, I do not know what happened,” he offered. His father Moses Ejanai on that particular evening received an anonymous call asking him to co-operate by sending Sh60,000 ransom if he wanted to see his son alive.  “I reported the matter to Kiambaa police post the following day. They told me to ask the kidnappers to which number I was to send the cash,” he narrated.

The kidnappers asked him to wire the money to his son’s phone number. “I was unable to raise a cent because we barely have enough for ourselves,” he explained.

Nakain said he was occasionally blindfolded and moved around town by the kidnappers.

He revealed they were three of them in the cell and they would be fed once a day. “I managed to see GK number plates of the Land Cruiser that dumped me on the same spot I was kidnapped,” he said. “I slowly walked to Eldoret town where I met a neighbour who assisted me with Sh60 that I used to board a matatu home,” he added. Eldoret DCIO Isaac Musyoki advised the family to take Nakain for medical check-up.

“The case was complicated by the fact that the mobile phone was being switched off regularly,” he added.