Police have launched a manhunt of a house girl who is believed to have disappeared with Sh5 million from former Minster Simeon Nyachae’s house in Nairobi. The woman identified as Lilian Maina, went missing on October 7, a time her employer (Nyachae’s wife Grace Wamuyu) had travelled to UK to visit her ailing husband (Nyachae). Detectives looking into the matter arrested the house girl’s daughter (Grace Mbugua) who allegedly picked her mother from the Minister’s house and escorted her to Kitengela.
The officers wanted her detained for a week to enable them to finalise investigations, as they claimed that she knew the whereabouts of her mother, but a Nairobi court rejected the request. According to Court documents, Nyachae and his wife returned to the country on October 7 and the following day she could not find the keys to the safe in her Bedroom.
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“I checked where I usually keep the keys but they were not there. I went to the safe and I found them in the Keyhole and all the money that was in the safe missing. Some were in foreign currency’” said Ms Wamuyu as she recorded a statement at Parklands Police station.
By the time of reporting the incident, her house help (Lilian) had already disappeared.
“We started investigations and Ms Mbugua was arrested on October 29 on the strength of phone calls data which showed she had picked up the suspect and escorted her to KitengelaThe police believe the young woman has information on the whereabouts of the key suspect,” the police said in an affidavit.
Wamuyu and her husband returned to Kenya on October 7, after he was discharged from hospital. The following day, Wamuyu said, she could not find the key to the safe. She said she checked where she usually kept the key but it was not there. She went to the safe and found it in the keyhole.
“The police believe the young woman has information on the whereabouts of the key suspect.”
They argued that it would be difficult to arrest her mother and recover the stolen money if she was released. The magistrate ruled that the subject had no business showing the police where her mother was hiding.
As a matter of fact, the magistrate said, she had a right to remain silent, a caution she ought to have been given at the time of her arrest. Cheruyioit said he wondered why police wanted to “visit the sins of a parent on her child”.