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Sunday, August 27, 2023 –Kenyans continued to raise concerns over the chilling incident where Western-based billionaire Jaswant Singh Rai was abducted on a Nairobi Street.
The Kabras Sugar owner who also owns Rai Ply and Rai Paper was on Saturday kidnapped in broad day light with people who accosted him on a traffic light queue.
A CCT footage shared widely on social media on Saturday evening, showed a man in a car who is believed to be the billionaire being forced out of his SUV in Kilimani area Nairobi City.
This happened on a busy traffic light junction where the businessman had held breaks momentarily waiting for the greenlight signal.
As he was waiting to move ahead, sadly, a double cab vehicle came from behind, blocked his way a bit making it hard for him to press the fuel peddle, the gang forced him out and managed to bundle him into their car and sped away.
The businessman had been caught unawares when this happened in seconds. The two men dressed in black seemed to be well-armed. They then fled away with him as onlookers minded their own business.
Law Society of Kenya LSK President Eric Theuri has said that the billionaire was definitely kidnapped by men believed to be police men.
“His whereabouts remain unknown. The family has reported a case of missing person vide OB No 21/26/08/2023,” the LSK president responded.
Boniface Mwangi, a Nairobi human rights activist, joined the first group of Kenyans who shared their concerns on the video showing the abduction incident.
Kileleshwa Member of County Assembly MCA Robert Alai also raised concerns on the safety of Asian business community in the country.
“The Sikh community is really worried about what happened and why there is no communication on why he is being held,” he wrote in a statement seen by Homenews.Co.ke.
So far, a missing person report has been filed at the Kilimani Police Station with family and friends asking for urgent help so that they can trace his whereabouts.
Lawyers at the LSK are now demanding the immediate safe return of the billionaire and an explanation from the Inspector General of Police, Japhet Koome, on this matter.
Of recent, several wealthy persons mostly businessmen, have been abducted on Kenyan roads in broad day light never to return again.
For example, in November 2021, Ethiopian businessman based in Nairobi, Samson Teklemichael, was driving his Bentley car when he was stopped in broad daylight by a man wearing traffic police uniform and later removed by other men in civilian clothes.
To date, no one talks about him anymore despite distress calls for help by wife Milen Mezgebo who said she cannot locate him since then. She said, last, he called her as he was being taken away and later switched off completely.
Her young family immediately ran into depression.
