CCTV footage showing one of two vehicles used by suspected security officers to allegedly abduct the teenage son and brother-in-law of former UDA General Secretary Cleophas Malala on Monday night. The pair were reportedly released six hours later.
At around 10 p.m. on Monday, CCTV footage captures the black Voxy arriving at the gate of Malala’s residence in Kitengela, Kajiado County.
Inside the vehicle, a man wearing a white T-shirt is seated in the driver’s seat, with Malala’s brother-in-law, Alvin, next to him. Malala alleges that armed security officers were seated in the back.
The footage shows Alvin signalling the residence’s guard to open the gate.
Malala claims Alvin was instructed not to speak but to show his face, as failure to comply would result in both receiving a bullet to the head. After a brief check, the guard opens the gate, and three minutes later, the Voxy exits the residence, failing to locate Malala’s wife, their intended target.
The Voxy is then seen at a nearby petrol station, where it joins a white Probox before both vehicles head toward Nairobi. Malala alleges his firstborn son, 19-year-old Leon, was in the Probox.
He says the two were forcefully taken near USIU, beaten, and later dumped at Roysambu six hours later.
Malala believes the abduction is linked to his recent political association with Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. He has pleaded with those responsible to spare his family and target him instead.
However, Kitutu Chache MP and UDA Treasurer Japheth Nyakundi has refuted these claims, asserting that no one was abducted. According to Nyakundi, the security officers were at Malala’s residence to recover three UDA vehicles that Malala had refused to surrender, calling his claims a “cleverly scripted drama.”
In an attempt to uncover the truth, NTV has traced the black Toyota Voxy with the registration number KCE 984D. A search through NTSA revealed that this number is registered to a yellow crawler excavator owned by Shanghai Construction Group Company Limited.
The discrepancy between the vehicle descriptions suggests that the Voxy had either a fake or stolen number plate, adding a new twist to the incident.
