Business activities in Moi’s Bridge town at the border of Uasin Gishu and Kakamega counties were halted for the greater part of Tuesday as hundreds of angry residents demonstrated demanding justice for the brutal defilement and murder of a 14 year old girl whose mutilated body was found dumped in a thicket near Moi’s Bridge town in Soy Sub County.
Using heavy boulders while pelting stones to a contingent of security officers, an irate mob of protesters barricaded Eldoret – Kitale road, paralyzing transport activity for several hours as they engaged police officers in a running battle.
The demonstrators lamented that in a span of two year the area has witnessed a spate of rape and murder incidences where nine lives have been lost to the rapists adding that no culprit has been convicted.
“It’s so painful how we are losing our girls to the rapists here in Moi’s Bridge yet police keep on telling us they are doing investigations but we have not seen any suspect being convicted .These incidences of lawlessness must end. We demand security for our sisters and daughters; we cannot allow this to go on. We want to see those behind this arrested and prosecuted,” said angry demonstrators.
It took the intervention of Uasin Gishu county governor Jackson Mandago to calm the situation as he appealed for thorough investigations into the incidents and ensure suspects are apprehended and subjected to the law.
According to the Soy Sub County Police Commander Nehemiah Bitok the girl was reported missing from their Moi’s Bridge home last Saturday before her badly mutilated body was discovered dumped in a nearby thicket Tuesday afternoon. He said the girl was sexually assaulted before being murdered.
The police boss appealed for calmness assuring residents of thorough investigations into the murder and ensure suspects are held responsible.
The body was removed by officers from Moi’s Bridge police station and taken to Kitale Mortuary for postmortem as investigations into the incident was launched.
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