Security agencies in Lugari Sub County are investigating an incident in which a gang of criminals invaded the home belonging to a Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officer where it tortured and caused serious injuries to its occupants.
Mrs. Belinda Nafula Wamalwa recounted to journalists the torturous experience the family went through under unknown number of hooded men at their homestead in Mwamba village.
“The gang broke into our homestead at about 9 pm and left in the morning at about 4:30 am after violently torturing us, raping my daughters and stealing property worth thousands of shillings,” Mrs. Nafula summarized events of the night-long ordeal under the armed thugs.
According to Nafula, the thugs demanded three items from her, which included hard cash, a purported hidden rifle and uniforms belonging to her husband, Mr. Tenson Chaq Saisi, who works with the KWS.
“But when I told them I didn’t have any of the three items, they started ransacking the house, looking for money and KWS uniforms,” said Nafula, adding the thugs took her, the son and their one month old baby to the family’s main bedroom where they tied the son on one of the beds using a rope.
When the gang failed to trace cash and security attires, they forced the woman to reveal her Safaricom Mpesa PIN before it managed to transfer the little cash that was on her phone to one of its own.
The family’s two daughters and a housemaid, who were sleeping in an adjacent room, were not spared by the gang.
“At about 5 am I walked into the girls’ bedroom, where I found my daughters and the house maid writhing in pain following the rape ordeal under the gang,” recalled the mother.
According to the secondary school students, the criminals raped them several times in turns, “leaving us with serious injuries on our private parts,” reported one of them who is a form three student at St. Cecilia Girls Mautuma.
The other girl, a form two student at Forestal Mixed Secondary was too shocked to speak before the media.
The gang is said to have prepared and served itself a delicious meal in between the criminal incidents.
“They prepared and served themselves with cups of tea and plates of spaghetti,” claimed Nafula, adding the gang that seemed to be on a field day treated itself to other niceties including sweets.
Besides the robbers making away with several geese, turkeys and chickens from the family’s poultry farm, the family also lost household items including, one laptop, two 42 inch television sets, home theater, phones whose values was yet to be established.
The suspects were still at large by time of going to the press on Wednesday.
Security officers led by Lugari OCPD, Mr. Bernard Macharia condemned the incident that has occurred in a period less than a month after a similar one in which armed robbers invaded a local bar at the same village where they made away with a television set and thousands of shillings.
The sub county police boss has, however, assured members of the public that security agencies, including regular and administration police and Criminal Investigations Department (CID), have launched investigations into the incident.
“CID officers are currently working and tracing phone communications linked to the suspects,” Macharia told www.westfm.co.ke, who admitted Mwamba village has been prone to crime related incidents in the recent past.
A section of Mwamba residents, who spoke to journalists, pointed fingers at the security apparatus in the area accusing them of laxity, hence increasing criminal activity in the area.
They have threatened to mobilize peaceful demonstrations if the insecurity issue is not urgently addressed.
