Kirinyaga: Boda Rider Found Living With 2 High School Sisters Who'd Gone Missing Arrested

• The two high school female students, identified as sisters, had been missing from their home for a period of one month
• According to their uncle, there were frequent arguments between the girls and their father regarding their habit of returning home late
• The boda boda rider was taken to Kerugoya police station awaiting trial while preparations for taking the girls back to school were being made

Residents of Kerugoya, Kirinyaga County, are reeling from shock after a boda boda rider was busted living with two female students who had gone missing.

How did the students end up at the rider's home?

The students, identified as sisters, reportedly vanished from their residence a month ago.

Upon discovering that the man was cohabitating with the students, angry residents gathered at his home, seeking explanations.

During an interview with NTV, Peter Bundi, the uncle of the students, mentioned that before their disappearance, the girls' father frequently argued with them over their habit of returning home late.

"I asked him why he was always scolding his children; he told me they always returned home quite late, from 7 pm to around 8 pm there. And he didn't want that," he said.

The girls were living under the care of their father before they eloped. The eldest girl was a form four student, while the other was a form three student.

The chief of the region, Ruth Nduru, emphasized the importance of parents fulfilling all their children's needs to prevent situations where they might seek companionship with older men.

"As mothers let us take care of our daughters. The father of these children might not understand all of his daughters' needs, causing them to go out to look for help from men," one resident said.

The suspect is currently being held at Kerugoya Police Station pending arraignment.

The government, on the other hand, is making plans to help the girls return to school.

Student elopes with boda rider

On August 30, 2023, Beverlyne Atieno Oduor disappeared from her parents' home in Kondele.

The development casts a cloud of worry over her family as the 15-year-old was a high school student who was supposed to have reported back to school for her third term.

In an interview with TUKO.co.ke, Beverlyne's parents revealed that the teenager was last seen on August 23, 2023, in her residential vicinity close to the mosque in Manyatta village.

The worried parents disclosed that they were convinced their daughter was being held by a boda boda rider who lived in Alendu, past Molem in Kisumu.

Proofreading by Nyambura Guthua, journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke