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Serah Aruwa, a final year student at USIU, was kidnapped by her college mate and her body found in a thicket five days later.
By FRED MUKINDA fmukinda@ke.nationmedia.com and YVONNE KAWIRA ymurori@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Monday, July 9 2012 at 23:30
Posted Monday, July 9 2012 at 23:30
A decision by university student Serah Aruwa, who was
killed, to leave the contacts of a man who had invited her to his house
helped police arrest a gang of college students suspected to have been
behind a series of kidnappings in Nairobi.
On June 30, the day she was abducted and detained
for ransom, the final-year student at the United States International
University (USIU-A) left a note with the phone numbers of a male student
who would have been her host.
Five days after her body was found in a thicket in
Ngewa, Kiambu, police used the telephone number to find the suspect
with further investigations revealing the invitation was just a lure to
kidnap Ms Aruwa and obtain ransom from her family. (READ: Missing USIU student found dead)
Police on Monday said the young man was the gang
leader and his accomplices were a classmate at Usiu and a female student
at the Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology.
College mate
“We shall charge them with the murder and last week
they appeared in court over the kidnap of another female student at the
University of Nairobi (Ms Melisa Ouko),” said head of Flying Squad
Munga Nyale.
Ms Aruwa was captured when she left her room in
Roysambu to visit her college mate. Her mother, Ms Hellen Aruwa, said
the kidnappers wanted Sh100,000 as ransom.
“They gave her the phone and she told me they were
detaining her... She sounded shaken,” she said. When police broke into
her house in Roysambu days later, they found the note, which identified
her college mate who lived in Donholm.
USIU-A on Sunday confirmed that the suspects in custody are
students registered at the institution. Deputy vice-chancellor Ritah
Asuda said the two male students suspected to be kidnappers had a flashy
lifestyle.
“I checked the records of both students and found
that they both paid their fee on time,” she said. Ms Aruwa was 24, and
would have finished her degree course in international relations next
month.
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