This archive report was first published on 28 June 2021.
On June 15, 23-year-old Hafsa Mohamed Lukman was abducted in Kayole, Nairobi. Five days later, she was rescued from a house in Matopeni, Kayole, where she had been kept captive in a broken water tank.
According to police, Lukman's kidnappers had lured her with a business deal to supply watermelons, and then demanded a Sh5 million ransom. The kidnappers had been tracked to a lodging at the Flyover Junction in Kinangop, where they were hiding.
Police have now arrested Hafsa Ahmed Abdi, Lukman's friend, and her boyfriend Jackson Njogu, who will be arraigned in court. The two are suspected of being involved in the kidnapping and torture of Lukman.
Abdi runs a watermelons business in Kayole, and had been buying the fruits from Bura and Garissa. The arrest of Abdi and Njogu brings the number of suspects arrested over the kidnap to three.
