The family of a two-year-old boy reported missing from their Mlolongo, Machakos County, home on Friday reunited.
Baby Andrew Kinywa was in the Ogalo neighbourhood of Matungu, Kakamega County, where an unidentified person left him at a house on Saturday night.
After a 12-hour drive from Mlolongo phase 3 to Koyonzo police station in Mumias, Kakamega County, Kinywa, the father of Baby Andrew, was reunited with his child.
A local entrepreneur named Jerine Okello described how the two-year-old was brought into a home in the Ogalo neighbourhood at 6 p.m. on Saturday and then abruptly left.
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As soon as I was done with my work, I noticed a youngster waving and asked my husband whether he had an extramarital relationship with someone who later arrived to leave the child close to him. Okello said this.
But, her spouse denied ever having such a child.
Following their formal report, the couple was given interim custody of the two-year-old kid until Monday, when further action would have been taken.
But, a Citizen TV report on Saturday informed Boniface of his son's whereabouts. He travelled to Koyonzo in Mumias, where Kinyua was reunited with his son following a three-hour interrogation.
"I also ask the government to enhance security because similar occurrences have been reported in recent days," Kinywa said after thanking Citizen TV for covering the tragedy.
When I was caring for the infant, all I could think about was how his mother might feel, admitted Okello.
Despite the joyful reunion, many more families nationwide are still looking for their missing children.
Six thousand three hundred seventy-four cases of missing children were recorded between January and May of 2022, according to the Directorate of Children's Services, indicating the need for heightened vigilance to safeguard the safety of the minors.
