Police and prison authorities have launched a hunt for a Ugandan woman who on Tuesday 29 escaped from Langata Woman Prison where she had been remanded.
Grace Mutonyi, 24, was arrested and charged in court with engaging in an indecent act with a child.
The court ordered that she be remanded at the facility. Officials said the remandee was cleaning the dispensary within the prisons, under the supervision of a female constable, when she disappeared in unclear circumstances.
She is yet to be traced.
An operation has since been launched to arrest her. Authorities are also investigating the circumstances under which she escaped.
Cases of escape of suspects are common in some areas and are at times found to be suspicious.
On November 26, another murder suspect also escaped from Koru police station in Kisumu County. Samson Otieno Okech, 50, had been detained at the station and was to be charged in court on December 5.
Police said while at the report office, they saw him running towards the gate before he disappeared into a tree plantation.
It was later established that he was a murder suspect.
In May this year, eight robbery with violence suspects made a dramatic escape from Thika police station cells in unclear circumstances.
Three of the suspects who escaped had on November 19 last year carjacked a woman and later raped her in turns as they made demands for more money from her husband.
One of the suspects requested the officer to take him to the toilet at around 10 pm.
As the officer opened the cell’s door, he was attacked by the suspects who overpowered him and forcefully took the key from him which they used to open the door before they escaped.
Some of the suspects are yet to be re arrested.
