Don't harm my husband, woman pleads with police after alleged abduction

A woman in Baringo County is living in fear following the disappearance of her husband who was allegedly abducted by police on Sunday evening.

Angela Chesang told The Standard that her husband, Vincent Otieno Odhiambo, was abducted by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations attached to Nairobi.

Chesang, a mother of two, said Odhiambo was first taken to DCI offices in Kabarnet before he was transferred to Muthaiga Police Station in Nairobi.

She said that her husband, a businessman at Kabarnet Town, was in his shop when he was ordered to board a car. She said two Subaru vehicles and one Toyota Land Cruiser escorted him to the DCI county headquarters in Kabarnet.

“Children who were playing near the shop screamed that my husband had been arrested by armed people. When I checked, I found him gone and the shop left unattended,” she said.

Shortly after, he husband called asking her to bring him his national ID.

“I arrived 10 minutes after his arrest. At the police station. Officers tried to intimidate me but eventually allowed me in to see him,” she added.

Chesang said she is yet to know the reason for her husband’s arrest.

She said the officers told her to go to Muthaiga and wait for her husband.

Since then, she hasn’t been in touch with him as his two mobile phone lines cannot be reached.

Her prayers is for her husband’s safety. “Don’t kill him, his children are still young and they need their father. We ask for forgiveness if he has caused pain to anyone,” she pleaded.

County DCI officer Kiama Gichimi said some officers had contacted the Director of Criminal Investigations, Baringo Central, over the arrest.

Michael Muchiri, the Police spokesperson said he wasn’t aware of the arrest.