This archive report was first published on 12 September 2019.
On September 2, a 17-year-old girl from Limuru traveled to visit her sister in Umoja Estate. She was escorted to Nairobi's Bus Station stage by her sister, where she paid for a boda boda to take her to Khoja matatu terminus. However, her ordeal began that evening, and she never made it home.
According to the girl, she was drugged with an unknown substance and lost consciousness for 16 hours during which she was sexually assaulted by her assailants. Medical tests conducted later revealed that she had been defiled. The key was removed from her private parts at Tigoni Level 4 hospital, and the key was given to the police as an exhibit.
Police in Tigoni referred the matter to Kamukunji Police Station, and investigating officers sought the assistance of CCTV surveillance cameras in the city. Footage obtained from CCTV control room at Jogoo House showed the girl climbing onto a boda boda at Bus Station matatu terminus, and her elder sister paying the boda boda rider. The boda boda then snakes through Uyoma road to join Munyu road and then towards Khoja stage where the girl was due to board a vehicle to Limuru.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the case, including a boda boda operator who picked the girl from Bus Station and took her to Khoja matatu terminus. Police officers are now trying to piece together what happened past the area covered by CCTV, scouting for more footage from the control room and CCTVs mounted on city buildings to get more insights into the case.
