NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 30 – Police have launched a manhunt for a Ugandan woman who on Tuesday Wednesday 29 escaped from Langata Woman Prison where she had been remanded.
Grace Mutonyi, 24, was arrested and charged in court with engaging in an indecent act with a child. The court ordered that she be remanded at the facility.
Superintendent Jackline Onyango said the remandee was cleaning the dispensary within the prisons, under the supervision of a female Constable, when she disappeared under unclear circumstances. She is yet to be traced.
On Saturday, November 26, another murder suspect also escaped from Koru police station, Kisumu County. Samson Otieno Okech, 50, had been detained at the station and was to be charged in court on December 5.
Constables Caleb Koech and Benard Rono said while at the report office, they saw him running towards the gate before he disappeared into a tree plantation. It was later established that he was a suspect in murder.
According to police records, one of the most daring escapes involving the largest number of suspects was in May this year when eight robbery with violence suspects made a dramatic escape from Thika police station cells in unclear circumstances.
Three of the suspects who escaped had on November 19 last year carjacked a woman and later raped her in turns as they made demands for more money from her husband.
According to the officer who was in charge of the cells, Constable Amos Muteti, he was called by one of the suspects who requested him to take him to the toilet at around 10pm.
The officer further claimed that as he opened the cells’ door, he was attacked by the suspects who overpowered him and forcefully took the key from him which they used to open the door before they escaped.
The then Central Region Police commander Manase Musyoka said Constable Muteti went to the cells alone at night, contrary to Police regulations, and had been detained to assist with investigations.
“Unfortunately, the officer in charge went to the cells alone. Usually, we have two officers at the reporting office who are supposed to accompany each other while responding to a detainee’s call,” Musyoka said.
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