A MOTHER HELD AT POLICE STATION HOURS AFTER GIVING BIRTH IN NYERI COUNTY.

A twenty one year old mother, Monica Wamweru was arrested yesterday and locked up at Nyeri central police station some hours after successfully delivering on Wednesday afternoon. She was taken from the hospital by police officers with the accompany of her boss, whom she used to work for in his mpesa shop and taken to the police station where he is held in custody. Ms.Wamweru's boss accused Wamweru of stealing ksh.90000 from his mpesa shop where she used to work at.

However, Wamweru's husband, Mr Irungu who is 22 years old said that his wife returned home from work on Tuesday evening then come night she began to develop labour pains and was rushed to hospital where she successfully gave birth on Wednesday at around 2pm. Come Thursday morning, the boss and the police officers reached the hospital and at first they even wanted to take Wamweru away leaving her newborn child unattended to.

While held at the custody, she denied that on Tuesday evening before leaving for home she took the total amount of money to her colleague as usual and only ksh.59000 was missing. ''They tortured me and my colleague at the station forcing us to produce the money,'' said Wamweru.The two were rescued by the commanding officer at the police station.

Ruth Fanice.