In a very unbelievable and controversial
circumstances, a woman who just
delivered a baby in a hospital has been
arrested by the police for
unsatisfactory reason. Monica Wamweru Police arrested a 21-year-old woman at Nyeri
Referral Hospital on Wednesday morning just
hours after giving birth, forcing her to leave her
newborn behind.
Monica Wamweru was cuffed and taken to
Nyeri Central Police Station in Kenya after her employer accused her of stealing Sh90,000
from his M-Pesa shop where she worked as
an attendant.
The first-time mother, however, claimed that
she was innocent saying she developed labour
pains before handing in the day’s collection, which according to her was only Sh59,000. "I did not steal any money from the
shop. I cleared as usual on Monday and
I took the day's collection to another
office where I handed over the money
to a colleague.
"I tried to explain this to the police officer and my boss but they would hear
none of it. All the money was intact," Wamweru narrated as she wept.
She further claimed to have been tortured at
the station before her relatives arrived to
demand her release.
Meanwhile, her husband, Mr Joseph Irungu, is
demanding a DNA test on the baby saying the arrest might have been a ploy by the police to
exchange their newborn with another.
Speaking to journalists, Nyeri OCPD Masai
Makau, absolved his officers saying Ms
Wamweru’s boss misinformed them. “There is a lady who was picked and
brought to the station for questioning
but the complainant in this particular
case never gave the officers the right
facts. He just told the officer that there
is a lady who has committed a crime on his property and she is now using the
hospital as a hiding place,” Makau said. Source: Kenya
