Security agencies have launched investigations into an incident where a gang of thugs raided Turbo Health Centre and injured a night guard, before they made away with computers on Tuesday night.
Speaking to the press from his hospital bed, Mr. Joseph Sitienei, the facility’s night guard, recounted how the gang of three entered the hospital at about an hour past midnight and wrecked havoc.
“The three were allowed into the facility after one of them feigned sickness,” recalled Sitienei.
According to the guard, the crudely armed thugs harassed him and forcefully demanded to be given the keys to all the doors of the health centre.
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Besides brutally hitting the security guard on his head using a blunt metallic object, the thugs attempted to take his life by strangling him using a mosquito net, leaving him unconscious.
According to the patients at the facility, the intruders went ahead and locked the night duty nurse and the patients inside one of the hospital wards, before they broke into an office and stole two desktop computers.
“They were eventually put off by our deafening screams,” said one of the patients.
Later, they attacked a neighboring village where they assaulted a businessman, Mr. Thomas Mwangi Macharia and made away with assorted household items.
According to Mr. Mwangi, the thugs gained access into his compound after cutting a section his fence at about 5 am.
They unsuccessfully tried to break into his shop but later managed to gain entry to his daughter’s house where they took a gas cylinder, a suitcase full of clothes among other items.
“Immediately I opened the door to find out what was going on, they hit me on the head and leg with crude weapons, but I managed to quickly wriggle back into the house and closed the door,” explained Mwangi adding that the robbers proceeded to a neighbor’s compound where they made away with his motorbike.
Residents of Turbo village have joined their counterparts from Mwamba village in expressing disappointment over what they term as ‘rampant security cases in the region’.
The two adjacent villages sit on the boundary between Kakamega and Uasin Gishu counties along the busy Eldoret – Webuye highway.
Turbo Officer Commanding Station Mr. Hillary Langat, who confirmed the incident, appealed to the residents to keep calm as security agencies in both villages investigate the incident