They groped my private parts, mum recalls ordeal in Malindi mob attack

Kwale County Women Representative Zeinab Chidzuga sheds tears at a press conference called by Women Leaders at Oceean View Hotel in malindi, Kilifi County on Tuesday,08th March,2016. The Women were protesting against a Malindi Woman Tailor Martha Mwanguo Mele who was allegedly undressed by Youths outside karima Polling Station, Shella ward in Kilifi County during the Malindi by-elections. Mele , a Mother of Two who was suspected over voter bribery claims said she had gone to vote and blamned Police for failing to protest her. PHOTO BY MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD

As world marked the International Women’s Day on Tuesday, Martha Mwanguo Mele from Malindi was a traumatised woman.

Mrs Mwanguo and four other women were attacked by a mob during Monday’s violence-ridden Malindi by-election. Mwanguo and another woman were striped naked by the goons.