By JEFF OTIENO
A fish trader by the name William Ngeso Wate is battling for his life at the Bondo District Hospital after a contingent of five uniformed policemen attached to the Usenge police station battered him.
According to eyewitnesses, the 29 years-old fishmonger was in the company of his wife together with two other friends on 3rd Jan 2009 at 9pm while enroute to a relative’s funeral., the brutal officers accosted them and went the full throttle of robbing him of Ksh 6,700.
His wife and two other friends however managed to sneak their way out from the merciless batterings of these notorious heartless police officers.
William who is a father of four sustained massive soft tissue injuries during the ordeal, surprisingly, the police in a bid to camouflage their dirty tricks are instead contemplating charging the hapless William for resisting arrest and assault amongst other trumped-up charges.
A spot-check by a group of journalists at Bondo District Hospital revealed how since admission, William has not answered any call of nature, a clear manifestation of the magnitude of the battering he received a round his kidney and the upper part of the abdomen, according to a nurse who spoke on condition of anonymity.
William is further having facial and soft-tissue injuries on his lower and upper lips.
More absurd and worrisome even to the hospital fraternity is that despite his poor state of health, William is handcuffed and a police officer by the name Joseph Njoroge who was part of the brutal squad has been assigned 24 hours to keep vigil as if he is a notorious hardcore conduit in the police hit list.
Kisumu based criminal lawyer Sam Onyango who got the plight of this fishmonger, immediately rushed to the hospital and vowed to take stern legal proceedings against the said officers.
Bondo District Medical Officer of Health (MOH) was however not in the station and instead referred the press to the Medical Superintendent who appeared non-committal to talk to the press.
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 04:26:00 -0800 [06:26:00 AM CST]
From: JEFF
Subject: USENGE POLICE ON THE SPOT