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Nairobi: Kidnapped S Sudanese teenager found

Author : | Published: Tuesday, April 15, 2014

A daughter of a former county commissioner has been found, almost a week after she went missing in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

The unnamed 14-year old girl was kidnapped by a drug dealer when she was walking in a Nairobi suburb with her friends.

“I was just walking and then one man grabbed me and put me into a car,” the 7th-grader, who comes from Jonglei state, described her ordeal to Eye Radio.

“We were three- two girls and one boy. We travelled for about four hours and then I asked the man where we were. The man said, ‘we are in Nakuru’”.

Nakuru, about 160Km and 2-hour drive from Nairobi, is the second major town after Eldoret in the Kenya’s Rift Valley province.

She said the man forcefully recruited them as agents who deliver drugs to specific clients in Nakuru

“The man calls the people then we’d meet them on the streets. We’d just give them the drugs; they’d give us the money and we’d go, that is what we were doing.”

The man she described as tall with dark complexion drugged the minors with marijuana in order to not question him.

“I smoked 6 [sticks] in the morning, 6 during lunch time and 6 during super. I couldn’t eat since Thursday, so it was worse and the guy dropped us on Sunday in town late at night.”

The teenage girl has been reunited with her parents.

Meanwhile, South Sudan Ambassador to Kenya, Majok Guandong said he is working with the Kenyan government to ensure that the abductor is brought to book.

“We’ve been in contact with the CID officers who were able to locate where the call came from,” said Ambassador Guandong.

“May be the criminal might have felt that the police was following them and that is why they released those children yesterday.”

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