Man Kidnaps 8-Yr-Old Son, Demands N182,000 Ransom From Wife

365news gathered that Detectives in Kenya have retrieved an 8-year-old boy who was abducted by his stepfather and returned him with his heartbroken mother.

Nemwel Ondari, the suspect, abducted the boy early on Saturday, November 12, following a domestic dispute with his wife, Everline Nandera.

The suspect was apprehended after the boy’s worried mother reported the incident to the Embakasi police station at around 9:30 am.

According to a statement issued by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations- DCI, the suspect demanded and threatened to kill the boy with a kitchen knife if the wife didn’t act fast.

“Nandera told detectives that she had left their home in Embakasi’s Tel Aviv area at the crack of dawn, headed for Muthurwa market,” the statement read.

The detectives established that the couple had a heated argument last night and after Everline left early in the morning for Muthurwa to fend for her family, the man packed his clothes and a kitchen knife in two bags, before taking off with the\ boy.

The detectives pounced on the man at around 4pm, as he eagerly waited for the ransom to be deposited into his Mpesa account.

Mother and child were reunited and the man was escorted to Embakasi police station, where he is cooling his heels awaiting arraignment.

But when she returned at at 9:20 a.m., she discovered that her son and husband had vanished. Nemwel Ondari, the wife’s 32-year-old husband, had written a note requesting Sh50,000 as a ransom for the boy’s release.

The father told his wife in the message that if she engaged in any wild behavior, he would kill the boy with a kitchen knife that he was carrying.

Detectives from the prestigious Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB), which is situated in the DCI Nairobi region, gathered as soon as the woman wrote out a report at the Embakasi police station, and a manhunt for the culprit was started.

A few hours later, with the help of their Embakasi counterparts, the detectives located the culprit and detained him at the NMS Green Park matatu terminal off of Haile Sellasie avenue.