Nairobi: Standoff At Mbagathi Hospital As Robbery With Violence Suspect Disappears For Hours

• Security guards at the Mbagathi Hospital arrested a suspect in robbery with violence hours after he tried to escape from prison warders
• The guards said that the suspect looked suspicious and also panicked when he noticed them, which made the arrest easy
• They also said the prison warders had tensed and were searching everywhere from the hospital after the suspect went missing

Nancy Odindo, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics, news, and feature stories across digital and print media in Kenya.

Nairobi - A suspect in a robbery with violence case has been rearrested hours after attempting to escape from the Mbagathi Hospital.

The suspect, who disappeared for hours, was taken into the facility for treatment by prison warders.

How did the suspect escape?

According to security guards manning the hospital, the man had requested to use the restroom, where he seized the opportunity to remove his Arsenal t-shirt and wear a reflector to conceal his identity and dodge the warders.

He was apprehended at the main gate of the hospital while on his way out.

Guards who nabbed him told TUKO.co.ke that the man looked suspicious, which made them curious to inquire about his whereabouts.

"He was bare-chested, which raised suspicions. He also panicked when we ordered him to stop," said one of the guards.

At that moment, the guards who had escorted the suspect to the facility were frantically searching for the culprit, moving swiftly throughout the area.

"Hao mafisa wamelia sisi ndio tumewashikia apo, (Prison warders have been crying all along; it is we who caught the man after seeing how unsettled he was)," the guard said.

Suspected Migori robber seeks refuge in delivery room

In other news, a Migori man was saved from an incensed mob of boda boda operators who eagerly waited to kill him after an alleged series of robberies.

According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Mwita Daudi Marwa, aged 45, who was known for his involvement in motorcycle thefts, sought shelter in the Mother and Child section at Kehancha Hospital in Migori county.

The angry boda boda men forced their way in, but officers on patrol quickly arrived at the chaotic scene and rescued him from his colleagues who were intent on harming him.