Police have arrested three leaders of a religious organisation who are said to have abducted six schoolchildren.
The three boys and the same number of girls are in Standards Five and Six at Tebeswet and Olbutyo primary schools in Siongiroi Division, Bomet District.
The Enakore Worship Centre is said to be holding only night prayer meetings for young boys and girls at Olbutyo trading centre.
The pupils and other youths were to have accompanied the pastors to the sect's headquarters in Nairobi for a series of crusades when the arrests were made.
Area police boss Abraham Murgor said the schoolchildren had failed to attend three consecutive night studies at their schools, prompting their teachers to find out the reason.
He said that with the help of the chief and the education officials, the parents mounted a search and found their children at the church.
Before the arrests, the parents were unaware their children had joined the sect, or that they were about to travel to the city.
Mr Murgor said the parents, the education officials and the pupils had recorded statements, and that the pastors would be arraigned in court today to answer abduction charges.
The district education officer, Mr Joshua Omoi, asked parents to beware of unregistered sects mushrooming in the region to save their children from being lured into religious organisations they knew little about.