Suspects in the alleged kidnapping of media personality Ciku Muiruri’s daughter have been arrested.
Erica’s ID card is what got the suspect who kidnapped her to get arrested.
Ciku Muiruri’s daughter Erica Gachoka, 26, and her friend Shanice Agose, 27, were kidnapped in Westlands on June 5, 2023.
The suspects who kidnapped the duo was demanding Ksh500,000 for their release.
The acquisition of an identity card belonging to Erica by the suspect is what led to the arrest and the rescue of the two young women.
The suspect sold himself out after he was seen in possession of the ID card prompting people who had seen him with the ID to alert the police.
Detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), acting on a tip-off, approached the suspect, who was found with the ID card, and asked him to produce documents he had in his pockets.
He produced Erica’s ID card and demanded that the missing woman be produced immediately.
“He then led the officers to a house in Weitethie area where the two girls had been locked up,” said a DCI sleuth privy to the matter.
The abducted women also told police that the suspects threatened to kill them if they did not receive the money.
On June 6, 2023, Ciku Muiruri vowed that she would never eat until her daughter was found by a multi-agency team tasked with searching for her.
Since going public, she has been holding a novena prayer on her official Facebook page.
Ciku has also asked Kenyans to join her in praying for the two women.
