Four members of one family from two separate villages in Mautuma location, Lugari Sub County are nursing serious injuries after a gang of criminals invaded their homes and attacked them on Tuesday night.
Speaking to press, Mr. Joseph Maina, one of the victims, narrated how the armed gang, numbering to six, raided his home in Sipande village at about 8 pm, where they assaulted his sister, Veronica Wangui several times on the head using blunt objects before meting the same brutality on him.
“I had gone to the shops before the attack, but when I returned home I bumped into the criminals that immediately pounced on me, hitting my head and back using blunt objects, they said they wanted to kill me the way they had killed my sister, since she was lying unconscious on the ground they assumed she was dead” said Maina, who further recalled how the criminals carried him shoulder high up to Turbo forest.
“The gang threatened to abandon me in middle of the forest, but shelved the idea after searching and getting Ksh. 950 from my pockets,” added Maina.
It was then that the robbers carried Maina back to the house, where it conducted a thorough search looking for cash, before disappearing with several household items, including utensils, maize and beans.
The robbers hauled and left the victim under his bed in unconscious state.
“I came back to my senses at about 1 am,” said Maina who raised the alarm, attracting neighbours to the scene where they rescued him and the sister, who was laying helpless in a flower garden.
The same gang is alleged to have invaded the homestead belonging to Maina’s cousin in Mugunga village where it injured the wife and her brother in law.
The four were rescued and rushed to Mautuma Sub county hospital.
Mautuma residents, led by Lugari Sub County Peace Committee Chairperson, Mr. George Njoroge, have condemned the ugly incident, blaming the same on security lapses.
Njoroge appealed to the security department to beef up security of the area through increased police patrols as well as construction of a police post, “because both Lumakanda and Turbo stations are far away,” added Njoroge.
Security agencies in the area have already launched investigations into the incident.
