Family in agony as baby goes missing

Moses Aura during an interview at their house in Rhonda, Nakuru County on July 30,2019,The Family is searching for their 2 months baby who was taken away by a stranger on July 1, 2019. [Harun Wathari/Standard]

A family has appealed for help to find its two-month-old baby that has been missing for a month.

Moses Aura (pictured) and his wife Calend Mwajuma say they had left the baby with a neighbour at Rhonda Estate in Nakuru on July 1.

The neighbour offered to look after the baby to allow her mother go to a market about 500 metres away. 

Mwajuma left for the market at around 2pm and left the baby sleeping on a chair. She returned at around 3pm to find the baby missing.

The neighbour claimed she did not know the baby’s whereabouts.

“My wife was leaving when a neighbour volunteered to look after the baby. She left for the market, but did not find her and the neighbour said she did not know who had picked her,” said Aura.

The neighbour claimed that she heard someone open the couple’s house and thought they were back home.

Returning home

Aura recalled that while returning home from his carpentry work, he met a woman at the gate carrying a handbag. 

The matter was reported a Rhonda police station Occurrence Book Number 20/01/07/2019. Aura, however, lamented about the slow pace of investigations accusing the police of not doing enough to trace the missing baby.

“I am hopeful that my daughter shall be found, but I am worried investigations are too slow,” he said.

Nakuru Town West Sub-county police commander Patrick Oluony said investigations to trace the missing baby are ongoing.

He said police are working with the baby’s parents and members of the community policing committees in the probe.

“It is so painful to lose a baby. So far, we have sent signals to other police stations all over the country to help trace the baby,” said Oluony.

He dismissed allegations that police conducting investigations were victimising the baby’s parents.