{"id":137777,"date":"2026-04-15T09:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/two-arrested-over-abduction-killing-of-9-year-old-boy-in-kiambu\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:03:18","slug":"two-arrested-over-abduction-killing-of-9-year-old-boy-in-kiambu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/two-arrested-over-abduction-killing-of-9-year-old-boy-in-kiambu\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested over abduction, killing of 9-year-old boy in Kiambu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the abduction and murder of a nine-year-old boy in Kajai, Githunguri Sub-County, Kiambu County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The suspects, identified as James Ngigi Ngendo, 32, and James Mburi Chichu, 75, are in custody after being arraigned in court, where investigators secured 10-day custodial orders to allow for further probe into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to detectives, the boy\u2019s mother had left him at home under the care of his grandmother and sister while she attended a family gathering in Kipipiri.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after she left, the grandmother reportedly received a call from a man later identified as Ngendo, who claimed to have abducted the child and demanded a ransom of Ksh150,000.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations led officers to Gitothua in Ruiru Sub-County, where the first suspect was traced and arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He later led detectives to the second suspect in Kigio area, Githunguri Sub-County, resulting in a second arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on information provided during interrogation, detectives searched a house previously occupied by the first suspect where they discovered the child\u2019s body concealed inside a manila bag, hidden under clothing materials on the rooftop.<\/p>\n<p>The body was moved to Mukoe Funeral Home, where it awaits postmortem examination.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/two-arrested-over-abduction-killing-of-9-year-old-boy-in-kiambu\/\">Two arrested over abduction, killing of 9-year-old boy in Kiambu<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the abduction and murder of a nine-year-old boy in Kajai, Githunguri Sub-County, Kiambu County. The suspects, identified as James Ngigi Ngendo, 32, and James Mburi Chichu, 75, are in custody after being arraigned in court, where investigators secured 10-day custodial orders to allow for further probe into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}