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The vehicle in which Gor Mahia fans were travelling in from Mumias before they were carjacked by eight armed thugs. (Photo:Boniface Thuku/Standard) |
By Ben Ahenda
Nakuru, Kenya: Forty-six Gor Mahia fans were Monday carjacked by a group of eight armed thugs at Kibunja in Molo after they posed as police officers manning a roadblock.
The fans were on their way to Nairobi from Mumias Sports Complex after watching their team lose 2-1 to Western Stima in a Kenyan Premier League match on Sunday.
The thugs waved down the driver of the Mitsubishi vehicle registration Number KBV 062A at 2am and ordered him out of the vehicle and hand over the ignition keys to them.
The thugs were fully dressed in police uniforms and were armed with rifles according to victims interviewed at Molo Police Station where the bus was stationed after the ordeal.
Sensing danger, the bus driver released the ignition keys to one of the thugs who commandeered it to a nearby bush where they found an earlier carjacked Mololine Matatu registration Number KBF 130S.
The Gor Mahia fans refused to let in the thugs through the main door forcing them to break four windows using the gun butts.
The thugs then ransacked all the fans and stole their valuables, which included money, mobiles phones and other personal effects.
The bus driver Charles Njuguna said he heard one of the thugs speak in Dholuo to sensitise the fans of the danger if they resisted while the other three were conversing in a different language.
“They told us to obey their orders if we wanted to be safe,” a shaken driver who was bare feet after he lost his shoes and Sh25,000 to the thugs.
While in the forest, one of the thugs raped a twenty-year-old lady who was a passenger in the Mololine Nissan, which was travelling from Eldoret to Nakuru.
She was later admitted at the Molo District Hospital where doctors said she was in a stable condition.
“The patient is okay although she is a bit shocked from the inhumane act. She has received medication and is responding to treatment well,” said one of the doctors attending to the lady.
Molo OCPD Job Lesikinwa confirmed the incident and said they were following crucial leads.
“We are tracking them down and will arrest them soon,” he said.
He called on motorists to ignore any road block at night which is manned by people purporting to be police officers without a police vehicle.
The Nissan Matatu driver John Kamau said they were carjacked at midnight by thugs who wore police uniforms and were all armed with rifles.
One of the passengers in the matatu Isaac Simiyu said he lost Sh3,000, shoes and documents which included two ATM cards and his national Identification card.
Nakuru County Governor Kinuthia Mbugua who toured Molo on Monday with his cabinet decried the rising insecurity in the area.
He said he would push for the transfer of all police officers who had over stayed in the area.
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