Comic Book Writer Arnold Lakita Finally Breaks His Silence: “I was Abducted!”
Last week, I caught wind from an impeccable source close to the story about Arnold Mwashumbe Lakita’s whereabouts and without hesitation, I put the story up. The fact as I was given are that Arnold who is an infamous drug addict is prone to leave the house without explanation and go missing for days on end.
His recent escapade was no different for his usual antics but this time they got the attention of twitter influencers. Well, he was allegedly found to have been shacking up with his mistress in Ngara. Yesterday, the story trended -I fail to understand how links trend, do links on twitter trend only when influencers share them?
Well, Arnold finally broke his silence more than a week after the story first went up. And this is what he had to say:
People
There is a story circulating on a gossip website that I was hiding out with a girlfriend in NGara for the 18 days that I was missing.
I would just like to state categorically, that this is a total FABRICATION. I am angered, and Salma (my wife) is so distressed by this complete lie.
For 18 days I was abducted and held by persons unknown. For reasons I do not understand they then chose to drop me off on Mombasa Rd near Embakasi. I made my way to Community where I was spotted by a good Samaritan. My in-laws and police then picked me up, and I was taken to hospital exhausted and confused.
Since Wednesday the 4th of December, the day of my release, I have been trying to put this ordeal behind me to concentrate on work and my family. I am a very private person and am reluctant to get involved in this media circus. However, my wife is upset, and now I am forced to set the record straight.
Kindly allow me and my family to put this behind us and continue the process of healing. It has been a very trying time, to say the least, and this speculation, and intrusion into our lives by a rabid and misinformed media is very destructive and hurtful.
Please allow us to heal in peace.
Abuducted… Indeed.
