'Send Me Sh400,000 If You Want Your Baby Back...' Mother Narrates Gruelling Ordeal With Kidnapers

Piece by: Grace Kerongo
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An eight-month old baby found abandoned near a railway line in Ol Kalou has been reunited with her mother.

Angela Wanja was handed over to her mother Irene Kendi on Wednesday afternoon.

The baby had been stolen from Embakasi in Nairobi on Thursday last week. She was later found abandoned at Kiyuu in Ol Kalou, Nyandarua county on Friday afternoon.

Kendi said her maid, Mary Wacuka alias Angela Wambui, took away her baby and demanded a Sh40,000 ransom.

Kendi said she had hired Wambui as maid from a male friend she only identified as Boni.

She said Wambui had been cohabiting with Boni before the man's wife returned from upcountry, forcing her to leave.

"It was our third month together. She woke up well and attended to her duties as usual," Kendi said.

Women who spoke to the Star at the JM Memorial Hospital said Wambui wept when she left Angela at the ward.

"It never occurred to us that she was only shedding crocodile tears," Hannah Kaberia said.

Wambui has since been handed over to Embakasi DCI officers. She was arrested by Nyandarua Central DCIO Stansellous Mwangi.

Chege called for a thorough investigation, saying it appeared like Wambui was working in cahoots with a child trafficking cartel.