Eldoret Woman Admits Buying Missing Boy for Ksh.30,500, Claims She Couldn’t Conceive
The High Court of Kenya, Eldoret Town
A court at Eldoret was shocked after a woman accused of stealing children confessed that she had purchased a six year old boy at Ksh.30,500 to an eager seller since she was unable to bear children.
The accused, Monicah Kwamboka, was called before the Eldoret Principal Magistrate, Cheronoh Kesse to request that she be spared by arguing that she would assist the police trace this woman who allegedly sold her the child.
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Kwamboka admitted that the boy was not her blood. She lost her first-born son and could not have another child when she remarried, and that is why she was desperate to have a child. She actually testifies that her aunt took her to a woman in Langas estate in Eldoret who sold her the child.
It is said that the boy was reported missing on May 16, 2024, in the informal settlement of Langas, the densely populated place in the Uasin Gishu County. The court also was able to experience emotions in the case since the biological mother of the child, Abscondita Azenga sobbed as she pledged her tests of searching her lost son all over a year.
The three children of Azenga confirmed to the court that her child had disappeared without a trace until he was called by Langas Police Station on the phone. She was shown a photograph of a boy when she arrived, which officers showed her, and asked her to confirm that it was that boy. She was frenzied when she confirmed to the boy in the picture that it was her missing son.
Prosecution has since requested the court to order the DNA test be carried out to determine the maternity of the boy between accused and the biological mother. The experiment will be conducted at Government Chemist, Kisumu County.
Magistrate Kesse ruled in her decision that the minor be temporarily placed under the custody of a privately operated rescue centre in Pioneer estate located in the outskirts of the city of Eldoret until the case has been thoroughly resolved.
Meanwhile, the accused person shall spend time in the Langas Police Station awaiting the results of the DNA analysis. On October 29, 2025, the case will be mentioned.
The alleged child trafficking ring is still being hunted down by law enforcement officials, and with the Kwamboka confession, it is possible that there exists a more extensive illegitimate adoption/child-sale network in the area.
