By vitalis kimutai

A woman is in hospital after a man who promised her a well paying job raped her.

Rose* travelled from Nairobi to Bomet to be employed as a supermarket attendant at an outfit she was told belonged to a senior politician.

Her friend, an Administration Policeman at Kaboson chief’s camp in Sigor Division, told her she would earn Sh12,000 a month.

"But things started to change when we arrived in Bomet town. He could not show me the supermarket," she recalled yesterday.

The man did not take her to meet the politician’s wife either. Instead, they rode on a boda boda taxi to the AP’s camp in Kiboson.

The woman claims she became suspicious when the officer took her to his house.

"When I asked him why... he said there was no transport to the politician’s home and he would take me there the following morning," she told The Standard.

In the evening, she claims she was stripped, handcuffed to bed and repeatedly raped. "He beat me and gagged me with a piece of cloth," she says.

Rose (not her real name) narrates her ordeal to The Standard team, on Sunday.

The victim says APs at the camp rescued her the following morning. "They gave me clothes and Sh600 to enable me travel to Bomet and report the matter to the police," she said.

But her tormentor followed her to the police station when he realised she had been rescued.

"He took my underpants, brassier and shoes and locked them in a tin trunk. He then ordered me to stay indoors until he returned, adding I would be his wife," says Rose.

The AP allegedly returned to the house two hours later and unchained the woman after she pleaded with him, promising not to run away or talk about the incident.

When the man left her locked inside the house and returned to his workplace, she called out to officers at the camp, who unlocked the door.

The woman took with her the man’s ID card and picture, and reported the matter at Sigor DO’s office.

She said the officer had even called a male and a female colleague and introduced her as his wife.

She claimed the officers confiscated a letter a DO gave so she could be treated at Nairobi Women’s Hospital.

Bomet OCPD George Ali Losku said the matter had been reported to his office and the victim had recorded a statement.

He said the victim had been referred to Longisa District Hospital for treatment and issued with a P3 form.

Local AP Commandant Joseph Mativo said the complaint had been lodged at his office.

Kidnap cases are on the rise where people have been abducted and ransom claimed.

*The victim’s identity has been protected.