Commissioner of Parliamentary Service Commission Johnson Muthama has called on the government to intervene following the capture of Kenyan truck driver Grace Wanza Munyao in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

In a statement on Monday, September 2, 2024, Muthama said that Grace was captured by Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

Grace is reported to have been captured in DRC on August 27, 2024.

“I am asking Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, who also serves as the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to urgently secure the release of Grace Wanza Munyao, a Kenyan citizen and truck driver who was captured by the FDLR, one of Kinshasa’s coalition forces, on August 27, 2024,” Muthama stated.

According to the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), a political-military coalition, Munyao, who hails from Machakos County, was kidnapped at noon on August 27 in Kiseguro area, DRC. 

“Members of one of the active components of the Kinshasa regime’s coalition forces, namely FDLR, kidnapped a Kenyan woman truck driver, Florence Wanza Munyao, born on March 29th, 1979, in Machakos District, Kenya, on Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 at noon in Kiseguro, within the Binza grouping,” AFC stated.

AFC further added that FDLR and other rebel groups have violated of a ceasefire agreement and continued to threaten local agricultural activities through kidnappings.

“The same FDLR continue to threaten local agricultural activities through kidnappings and looting, thereby spreading terror and insecurity,” AFC added.

The Kenyan authorities are yet to comment on the kidnapping of the Kenyan truck driver.