The family of Jaswant Singh is yet to find details of their kin's whereabouts after a kidnapping incident on the evening of Friday, August 25.
The tycoon, who is the proprietor of the Kabras Sugar Company domiciled in Kakamega County, was removed from his vehicle on Friday, August 25.
He had been held up in a traffic snarl-up in Nairobi's Kilimani area when his supposed tormenters who had been trailing him in a pickup forced him out of his vehicle.
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CCTV at Wood Avenue captured how the events panned out.
Footage published on Twitter shows him being led out of the said pick-up which was waiting on the side.
This was as traffic built up there.
The waiting car drove off as the one Singh was in remained on the road.
The owner of Kabras Sugar Jaswant Singh Rai was kidnapped while in traffic. A missing person report was filed at Kilimani Police Station.The video on the right captures his kidnapping. President @WilliamsRuto promised an end to this criminal behaviour. Help find Jaswant. @IG_NPS pic.twitter.com/6PqJ06p1xJ
— The People’s Watchman (@bonifacemwangi) August 26, 2023
Some quarters assert the kidnappers were police officers.
The tycoon's family filed a missing person plaint at the Kilimani Police Station where it was booked under OB 21/26/08/2023.
"Jaswant Singh Rai was kidnapped by persons believed to be police officers along Wood Avenue, Kilimani, Nairobi. His whereabouts remain unknown. The family has reported a case of a missing person," said Eric Theuri, the LSK president.
Jaswant is the chairman of the Rai Group under which their late father's vast estate is borne.
The patriarch Tarlochan Singh Rai died in 2010 and his family has since then been constantly embroiled in a property row.
Jaswant who is the custodian of their patriarch's will has been accused by his close kin of seeking to administer the wealth valued at millions of dollars.
Their dispute has seen them tussle in court.
The Rai Group got interests in the manufacturing of edible oils and fats, soaps, cement production, timber milling, wheat farming, and sugar industry among other sectors of the economy.
