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Victims tell of ordeal at the hands of attackers

Victims of the Nakuru violence who are recovering at the Rift Valley provincial general hospital yesterday gave heart-rending accounts of their encounters with raiders. 

Mr Bernard Owino, 27, said he was walking home on Friday when he met a group of young men along Kanu Street.  

“They seized me without any warning, searched my pockets and robbed me of money and my mobile phone.”

He initially thought his attackers were interested in robbing him, but this changed when one of them whipped out a knife and stabbed him in the head, the left arm and leg. Police officers who were patrolling the area arrived almost immediately and took him to the hospital.

“I can’t tell why anyone would want to kill me. This violence should stop at once because we are all Kenyans,” he said. 

Mr Bernard Ondiek, 35, was travelling back to Nakuru town from Njoro when a group of young men who had erected a barricade near the Eveready Factory stopped the vehicle. The passengers  started fleeing in all directions, but Mr Ondieki was struck in the head by an arrow while another hit  his hand. 

Like Mr Owino, Mr Ondiek said he could not tell why he was attacked as he did not provoke the attackers in any way.  

Mr Peter Gatitu, who sells soft drinks in town, said he was attacked at Shabaab Estate while on his way home from work at about 5 pm on Friday. 

The attackers, who were torching houses in the area, slashed him on the head with pangas and threw him in a ditch where he was later found by a Good Samaritan. 

Mr David Kioko was hit on the head by a man who was in a group at Free Area yesterday. He was treated at the Provincial General Hospital  

Mr Daniel Obiero said that a group of young men raided his house at Free Area at about 10 am on Friday and ordered his family out of the house.

“I dashed out, but one of the attackers cut me on the leg. I managed to flee; I was informed they did not harm my wife and children.”

Story by SUNDAY NATION Team
Publication Date: 1/27/2008

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