By Joseph WanguiCourt Reporter-Nation Media Group
A drug widow, Baron Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla, sued the State three weeks ago after her two granddaughters disappeared. In a lawsuit filed in the Nairobi High Court, Ms Hayat Akasha states that the last thing that adolescents aged 18 saw in the morning of 2 August in the company of a guy residing in their neighbourhood in Nairobi was the young man. She accuses the police and the DCI of their unwillingness to aid in the hunt for teenagers or to supply information regarding their disappearance.
Ms Akasha wishes the Court to state that the security of the State has violated her right to knowledge about her grandchildren's location. The court also asks the police to trace and make the twins and arrest the culprits.
The children were caught by an unknown automobile on 2 August when their grandma dispatched them from the shop to purchase breakfast. They were joined by a 9-year-old sibling who came home alone and told his grandma about the event.
The youngster said that his sisters were with one of their male neighbors and he did not inform him when they were going back.
By John Khaminwa, lawyer, Mrs Akasha says four of her neighbors were the primary suspects in the case, who she alleges may have organized the disappearance since they were extremely close to the kids. She has identified as interested parties the neighbors – a lady and three males.
"The girls were so close to their neighbour, and he probably snatched them away. I sincerely feel that the neighbors have been deceived to elope them," the complainant claims in the courts.
Ms Akasha claims she sought to ask the neighbors about the location of the adolescents and she said the girls could have been brought to Mowlem Estate in Embakasi, Nairobi.
Ms Akasha wonders why the police did not call the suspects to be questioned about the disappearance of the girls.
She claims the officials have handled the problem in a slow and pleasant way while reporting at the Dandora Police Station and requested the police to investigate and trace the girls. The report was reserved for OB No. 10/02/2021.
On 11 August she was told by a DCI officer that the suspects will be at Dandora Police Station just to meet with a lawyer, Mrs Diana Gichuru.
"I have been very anxious and restless since my grandkids were absent. If this court does not urge for the Inspector-General of the Police to deliver the kids, I think they would be damaged to both my disadvantage and the wider family," said Mrs Akasha.
The old mother has been in the daughters' primary custody since childhood.
Two Akasha sons, Ibrahim and Baktash, are serving narcotics trafficking prison terms in the US.
jwangui@ke.nationmedia.com
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