The sister-in-law to former Westlands MP Fred Gumo who was kidnapped last Thursday and later released is the mother of another missing ex-terror convict.
Ms Jacinta Bwire and her driver Willis Otieno were released by their captors Saturday night and Sunday morning.
The family said they are fine without giving more details.
Her son Elgiva Bwire Oliacha who had been released from jail before he was picked up by gunmen in the city is still missing.
Gumo said Jacinta was released on Saturday night while their driver called Sunday morning to say he had been freed.
"We dont know where Elgiva is but Jacinta and driver were released by the captors. They are fine resting now," he said.
He said they may give further details later.
An official said they are concerned Elgiva is still radicalised and may go back to his activities.
"He never changed while in jail. He is still the same," said an official who had profiled him.
Officials said they expected to have their lawyer and Muslim scholar and lawyer Hassan Nandwa who was missing to be released.
CONVICTED
The families of the victims have now linked the drama to the release of Elgiva on October 28 from Kamiti Maximum Prisons where he had served 10 years.
This was after Elgiva who had been convicted to life appealed the same and it was reduced to 10 years.
Jacinta, a former Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company employee was driving home in Muthaiga area when her car was blocked and later bundled out alongside her driver and taken to unknown destination.
There has been no official comment from police. But the police confirmed the families of missing persons had made a missing report to various stations.
According to reports, Bwire was picked from Kamiti Maximum Prison by his mother, brother, and nephew.
Officials said Elgiva alighted in the city centre before he was picked up by captors.
After learning her son was missing or could not be located, Jacinta is said to have headed to Gumo’s home to inform him.
She was kidnapped by unknown people as she drove home. She was released after three nights at the hands of captors.
Soon after getting information on Elgiva's disappearance Prof Nandwa, headed to the Central police station to file a missing persons report, before heading to Jamia mosque for the evening prayers.
However, he also went missing and was last spotted at 7 pm on that day.
Supreme Council of Muslims chairman Hassan Ole Nado said he was shocked to learn Jacinta was the mother of the ex-convict.
He said Jacinta and her husband gone to his office in April this year to ask for his help and the safety of her son who was about to be released from jail.
“They said they were concerned their son may go missing as soon as he is released because of the nature of charges he faced. There was little we could do then,” he said.
Their fears came to pass five months later. Elgiva was still missing Sunday.
The family of Nandwa said he was not in any way linked to terrorism.
Hassan Nandwa, the firstborn son of the missing man, and his mother, Mawahib Nandwa said he was not a sympathiser of terror.
They said all he did was represent Bwire and which he did in his right as an advocate.
Elgiva was in the news in 2011 when he confessed to being a terrorist and a member of the al-Shabaab terror group.
He also admitted to illegal possession of firearms, including an AK-47 rifle, a submachine gun, two revolvers, 13 live hand grenades and 770 assorted rounds of ammunition.
GRENADE "TEST RUN"
Police were shocked by his confession that on Mashujaa Day on October 20, 2011, he had carried one grenade to Nyayo Stadium "for a test run."
In the stadium, he posed as a hawker selling sweets. Police were to later find the grenade and sweets when they staged a raid on his house.
Elgiva told police he went to the stadium and mingled with wananchi who had arrived for the occasion that was presided over by retired President Mwai Kibaki under tight security.
He decided not to detonate the explosive because of the rain and because a chance meeting with his mother distracted him.
Jacinta told police she bumped into him after almost a year as he walked out of the stadium.
Elgiva left the stadium with his deadly cargo and went to his house, which did not have a single piece of furniture, save for a prayer mat.
Jacinta said then that was her first meeting with her son since February 2010.
She said Elgiva, the third born of her five children, told her then that he had been in Mombasa and had only returned to Nairobi in August.
Elgiva attended primary school in Dandora and disappeared from home in February 2010 until a year later. He had gone to Somalia where he was radicalized.
He said then he received instructions via an email telling him to pick a luggage from Eastleigh, Nairobi.
Therein were 20 grenades and bullets. He later used seven before he was caught.
He had posted a message on Facebook stating he would attack 13 more locations before he was arrested.
Edited by D Tarus
