Police officer linked to city kidnap ring arrested

Handcuffs

The officer was on Friday, September 23, 2022, arrested by officers attached to Parliament Police Station for trying to kidnap Mr Nelson Rading Mango who has since gone missing.

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Police in the Central Business District (CBD) in Nairobi County are holding their colleague who was involved in a suspected kidnapping deal that hit the wall.

The officer was on Friday, September 23, 2022, arrested by officers attached to Parliament Police Station for trying to kidnap Mr Nelson Rading Mango who has since gone missing.

He was arrested alongside three others.

Police say that the four will today Monday, September 26, 2022, be arraigned in a Nairobi court to answer to charges linked to kidnapping.

“It was reported by the chief controller at around 1800hrs that there was a person namely Nelson Rading Mango who was kidnapped by unknown persons along Uhuru Highway towards Bunyala Road. It is then that police officers from Parliament Police Station rushed to the scene,” the report read in part.

At the scene, the officers intercepted a motor vehicle of registration number KCL 760X Mazda Demio before they detained the four.

The suspects will be charged with the offences of impersonation, giving false information and being in possession of government stores, handcuffs to be precise.

Equally, detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations in the city have launched a manhunt for Mr Mango who was supposed to be kidnapped.

This is after it was established that he managed to flee the scene before the arrival of police officers from Parliament Police Station.

The incident comes barely two days after a police officer attached to the General Service Unit (GSU) was arrested by his colleagues after he stabbed another officer, while they were at their residence.

According to the police report, Mr James Lutoma, who is attached to the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), allegedly assaulted Mr John Kithaka before other officers attached to the Central Division in Nairobi managed to arrest him.

The culprit is yet to reveal why he stabbed his colleague using a kitchen knife.