Wife in the months following Ethiopian's kidnapping in Kenya

Four months after affluent businessman Samson Teklemichael was kidnapped in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, his family is still waiting for answers about what happened to him.

Videos widely circulated on social media in November appeared to show the Ethiopian national being kidnapped in broad daylight.

He is shown being dragged out of his automobile in the middle of a road just outside Nairobi's major business center and put into another vehicle that accelerates away.

Mr. Samson's whereabouts are still unknown.

Milen Mezgebo, his wife, is inconsolable. She claims that the occurrence stunned her family and that her children continue to ask questions that she is unable to answer.

"Every day, my children are abused... She informs the BBC that they had seen the footage.

She claims she has only spoken to the police once when she went to provide a statement regarding her husband's absence. She hasn't heard anything from the authorities since then.

Mr. Samson, a native of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, made his fortune in the liquefied petroleum industry. He and his family have resided in Kenya for the past 17 years.

Ethiopia has requested that Kenya expedite its probe into its location. Meles Alem, the country's ambassador to Kenya, said the Kenyan government has informed them that police are conducting an inquiry, but no other details have been provided.

The Kenyan government has yet to react to a request for comment from the BBC.

The reason for the kidnapping is still unknown.

Given that Mr. Samson is from Tigray, some speculated that it was linked to the country's civil conflict.

Others have implicated Kenya's police, who have been accused of being responsible for dozens of disappearances in recent years.

However, police spokesman Bruno Shioso disputes this theory.

He tells the BBC that "we are there to defend the lives of people, citizens, and any other persons who may be within our land."
"We have highly active criminals that know how to use techniques, so it isn't the cops, and it shouldn't be the police."

In the footage of Mr. Samson being hauled away, a traffic cop can be seen.

Mr. Shioso acknowledges that it was a cop, but claims he was on duty and simply stopped "to see what all the fuss was about." "The cop was not at the site to help or arrest," he claims.