Bungoma residents protest as gang strikes again

By Bryan Tumwa

Bungoma, Kenya: There is renewed tension in Bungoma town after a gang struck on Wednesday night killing one person and injuring ten others just days after six people were killed in the region.

Residents demonstrated in the wake of the attacks as police remain clueless with not a single arrest having been made so far.

A businessman in the town is the latest victim in attacks carried out at Mashambani and Wing estates. By 10:00 pm on Thursday, ten people had been admitted at Bungoma District Hospital with critical injuries.

Meanwhile, a Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) official who implicated politicians in the Bungoma Killings claims that his life is in danger.

Bungoma South KNUT Executive Secretary Fredrick Shichanga claimed that his decision to publicly declare that politicians in the area were behind the attacks that left six people dead and scores others including children injured have put him in trouble.

Shichanga cried foul to the media Wednesday as detectives investigating the incident interrogated former Bumula MP Bifwoli Wakoli who surrendered himself at the local CID offices on Thursday.

Mr. Wakoli who was accompanied by his wife, former MP John Munyasia and a handful of his supporters was grilled for close to four hours by CID Boss Heren Agolla and his deputy Debedi Maina.