A twin boy stolen from Kenyatta National Hospital on Monday was to be sold for Sh7, 000.
Edinah Kemunto (29) the woman alleged to have made away with the baby and later found in Kawangware on Tuesday confessed that she had a ready buyer for the two-week old baby Prince Ouko.
She revealed this in an exclusive interview with Daily Nation yesterday. Kemunto had earlier given her name as Faith Kwamboka.
In narration of her escape with the baby, she said she was handed the boy in good faith by his cousin before her friend, Jennifer hatched a plot and tricked her to elope with the boy to her home in Kawangware.
The Keroka-based green grocer from Kisii described Jenifer as her friend. She said she was at the hospital for check-up after losing her baby last year in February.
“I had gone to the hospital for a check-up because I developed complications after giving birth to my baby, who died in February last year,” she said according to Daily Nation.
After making away with the baby, she handed him over to Jenifer outside KNH and they proceeded to Jenifer’s house in Kongo area of Kawangware.
“After I returned to my house, I realised that I had done a mistake and I went back to Jennifer’s house to try and convince her that we should return the baby.”
“I told her that, even though we had agreed that she was going to pay me, I was not happy about what we had done,” offered Kemunto.
She said she had asked Jenifer to let her take back the baby to KNH because he had been surviving on infant formula.
But her phone went off and this is when police raided her house.
“But this (Tuesday) morning, as I was washing the baby, police came to my house and arrested me. I have tried calling Jennifer several times but her phone is off.”
Kemunto was arrested and taken to Muthangari Police Station before being moved to Kilimani Police Station.
Divisional Criminal Investigations Officer Phyllis Kanina said by last evening, they were processing her for arraignment in court.
Kanina said they were tipped off by the public and they stormed her place only to find the baby there.
Job Ouko, the father’s boy said that, “I had just finished an interview with a local TV station when a woman called me saying she had seen the interview and wanted to confidentially alert me of a neighbour who had recently returned home with a baby in suspicious circumstances.”
He said he was shocked to find his two-week old son being fed white porridge prepared from maize flour.
His wife, Jane Kerubo who was admitted at KNH was all this time in the dark. Ouko, however, said that with the comeback of his son, he is optimistic she will recover soon.
“I’m overwhelmed with joy. This is a nightmare that has finally come to an end.”