Thika businessman Julius Gitau alias Gitau wa Mali has found himself at the centre of police investigations after claiming to have been kidnapped for over two months.
After recording a statement on Sunday, December 6 explaining his whereabouts following his abduction for 75 days, police have begun poking holes into his story.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are now set to review the footage capturing events of his purported abduction outside the Kenya Revenue Authority offices in Thika town.
According to statements recorded by Gitau, he claims that he was abducted by six gunmen in Thika town on Monday, September 21.
He added that two gunmen commanded him to drive the vehicle to Blue Post Hotel where he was ordered to park and was transferred to the small car.
The sleuths, however, question how the six-armed thugs carried out their abduction outside KRA offices without attracting any attention from the public at 10 a.m.
Gatanga Sub-county police have already contacted KRA and Blue Post Hotel to grant them access to the surveillance footage.
Gatanga police boss Peter Muchemi termed the claims as grave and added that the officers are eager to get to the bottom of the case due to huge public interest.
Gitau claimed that after being released from his abduction he found a boda boda on a dusty road with the rider offering him his phone to contact the family.
Muchemi revealed that they are also set to trace the location of the phone calls Gitau made to verify his account.
"It is not rocket science to programme the call signal and know the exact location it was made and also by application of geo-mapping, trace the most likely places the building he claims to have been his abode for 11 weeks is situated," he added.
Questions have also emerged as to why the abductors did not ask the family for ransom.
