Taxi driver narrates how he trailed and found van belonging to missing cab driver Victoria Muloki
By Mercy Koskei
Police looking into the disappearance of Mombasa-based taxi driver Victoria Mumbua Muloki, 35, have found her vehicle and arrested a man found driving it.
The suspect, Edwin Ngetich Kipkemoi, was intercepted on Sunday at Pipeline Junction along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway while driving a white Nissan Serena, registration number KDQ 182F.
Nation.Africa met Joseph Mburu, a taxi driver based in Nakuru, who was instrumental in locating Mr Ngetich.
He recounted how he spotted the vehicle after noticing its details in a taxi drivers’ WhatsApp group.
“I was driving a client to town from the Mzee wa Nyama area when I saw the vehicle and asked my passenger to confirm the number plates with what had been circulated online. They matched," he explained.
Mr Mburu says he followed the vehicle from a distance, all while staying in communication with the police.
Taxi operators mill around a white Nissan Serena which Victoria Mumbua Muloki, 35, was driving before she disappeared.
Mr Ngetich, who was driving the missing woman's car, attempted to evade detection by avoiding highways and taking off-road routes, while also driving at a slow speed to buy time.
“We followed him from a distance, he could try escaping but the routes he was taking were dead-end. All that time we were in communication with officers. At one point he entered a petrol station and opened the bonnet but he was just buying time. He then again went to a car wash and claimed that he had been sent by a person he identified as Philip...that’s where he was arrested,” he recalled.