Detectives have rescued a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from his home in Ruiru in Kiambu County following a swift operation that also led to the arrest of two male suspects.
Acting on a missing report filed by the distressed parents at Ruiru police station, officers launched a thorough investigation that took them to the Western and Central regions, where the suspected perpetrators were arrested.
During a raid in one of the suspect's house in Tetu in Nyeri County, detectives found the missing child in the company of one of the homeowners and the man believed to have snatched him away from his home in Ruiru.
The child's parents have been notified of his rescue while he undergoes a medical examination at a hospital ahead of their reunion.
The arrest of the two suspected child traffickers comes amid a surge in missing children cases that has alarmed the nation.
In February last year 2024, police raided a house in Kayole in Nairobi and rescued 16 children aged between two years and 16 who they suspected had been smuggled.
The suspects, a Kenyan and Tanzanian national, were arrested by the police during a night operation.
The children were held in a two-roomed house for two weeks when police were alerted.
The police asked for public help to limit the crime and noted that they were still in the ongoing process of interrogating the suspects in order to determine the mission of the children who had been kidnapped and held in the house.
The police said that some of the children who had been kidnapped and rescued were so young.
“Some of the children are as young as two years old. It is a hard task to even take care of such young ones,'' the police said.
The children were subsequently placed in a nearby private children's home for care as investigations continued.
