Five people were on Sunday arrested by DCI sleuths from Bungoma police station for allegedly stealing a child last December.
The five, four women and a man, are accused of stealing the baby at the maternity wing of a health facility in the county.
Speaking to the media, Bungoma South Sub-county deputy police commander Wilson Muraya noted that the case was reported at the station by Mercy Chebet from Chepyuk in Mt. Elgon.
She claimed that one of her children was missing after she delivered twins in December last year at the facility.
Chebet had claimed that she gave birth to twins (boy and girl) at the maternity ward through the caesarian section but she was only handed a girl.
She claimed that the when ultrasound was done earlier in the pregnancy, it showed she was pregnant with twins.
Four of the five suspects will be arraigned on Monday to answer charges of child trafficking.
Muraya said that the DCI sleuths arrested one of the suspects with an unmanned baby.
She was detained at Bungoma police station waiting to be arraigned.
