Girls rescued by engineer

A KENYAN aircraft engineer for the country’s police airwing followed her intuition which resulted in the rescue of two girls who had been abducted, authorities said on Monday.

National Police Service Airwing chief inspector Justine Ouya stopped and interrogated Jackson Mutinda, 31, while he was walking with a three-yearold and four-year-old girl along Langata road, according to Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).

“Her intuition as a police officer, coupled with her motherly instincts, made her suspicious. She immediately stopped the man and interrogated him,” DCI Kenya reported.

Ouya learnt that the man was not the two girls’ father as he originally said, and called for police officers from Wilson Airport.

Mutinda revealed that he had lured the girls from their home in Muthurwa. He was taken into custody and faces child trafficking charges.

The two girls were reunited with their parents in Muthurwa. |