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How ice cream seller and taxi driver plotted fake kidnap to mint cash

Kidnapped man in a dark room [File]

An ice cream seller and a taxi driver who went partying after faking a kidnap in Nairobi's Embakasi have been arrested.

Detectives from the Nairobi area Criminal Intelligence Bureau arrested the 24-year-old taxi driver and the 26-year-old woman at a lodge in Sagana, where they went after receiving Sh50,000 sent by the woman's father and husband.

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