A young mother is insurmountable pain after her child was snatched from her arms by a woman on a bodaboda in broad daylight.
According to Kanik Kavetsa, a woman on the pillion passenger snatched her two-week old baby on Friday, October 15, at Wareng bus stage in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County.
Kavetsa, was on her way to visit her mother, Agnes Msimbi, who lives in Kericho.
As she was waiting for the next minibus, she noticed an idle bodaboda rider, whom she innocently returned greetings to. Little did she know that he would be the cause of her sorrow.
"The engine was on and the rider even said hello to me. I did not know what intentions he had in mind," Kavetsa told a local media station.
As she continued to look out for the next vehicle, while minding her own business, someone tapped her shoulder from behind. To date, she wished she ignored.
A woman, donned in a black apparel snatched her two-week old baby from her arms and dashed to the idle bodaboda rider, who had waved back to a few minutes before.
"When I turned to check who it was, my baby was snatched. The next thing I saw was a woman dressed in a black buibui on the motorbike," she narrated.
Kavetsa, who was recovering from an ailment caused by accumulation of breast milk in the body screamed as loud as she could, but the motorcycle and the pillion passenger disappeared into thin air.
Since then, she has tried every trick in the book to get back her son. She created a missing person's poster of her son with her phone number, but all in vain.
Instead, she received calls from swindlers, who tried to swindle money from her, claiming that they would help bring her son back using black magic. Other genuine callers told her that they had spotted her baby but in all incidences, that was not her son.
"Some phone from Migori, informing us that there was a baby who had been found in hospital and was in critical state. When the doctor sent us a photo of the child, it was not him," a teary Kavetsa stated.
However, the twenty-three-year-old mother is more concerned about the health of her son. She stated that her son was now at risk of getting infections associated with lack of breast milk which are common in infants. She pleaded with the abductors to return her child.
"He was still very young and exclusively relied on breast milk. I know that wherever he is, he must be struggling without breastfeeding," the young mother pleaded.
