Sexual predators have devised new tricks of abducting teenage girls, in a new trend targeting school going girls and those who have just completed their secondary school education.
In one such case reported by a bus conductor working for Executive Bus company that plies the Nairobi-Mombasa route, a teenage girl who boarded his bus at Machakos junction, almost fell victim after she was invited to Mombasa by a man she had never met before.
After boarding the bus, the girl lied to the conductor that she was headed to the coast, to meet her brother who stays in Mariakani.
The bus conductor then asked her to pay her bus fare amounting to Sh 1,500 but the girl only had 500 shillings.
He asked him to come at the bus stop and pick the girl as he settled the balance, but the man told him to send the girl to Kaloleni by a motorbike, where she would meet him then he would settle the balance.
What followed shocked the staff of executive bus services, when the teenager said that the man who had come to pick her up was not the man she had been chatting with, adding that he did not resemble the person appearing on the Facebook page.
The bus company provided accommodation for the teenager and a bus ride back to Machakos junction, where she had boarded their bus the previous day.
The conductor who shared this information intimated that such cases were rampant, and even cited another case where a 17-year old girl who had just sat her KCSE, boarded their bus at Matuu and alighted at Mombasa to meet a man she didn’t know, only a day after the previous incident.
