IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT IT WAS HIRED KISUMU GOONS WHO BEAT UP THREE MPS, BREAKING THE ARM OF ONE OF THEM DURING RECENT FARMERS PROTEST IN MUMIAS TOWN.
Writes A special Correspondent
It has now been established that the goons who mingled up with anti-riot police and savagely beat up local MPs during sugar cane farmer protest demonstration in Mumias Town two months ago were hired from Kisumu, we can now authoritatively report.
The goons numbering about 50 were ferried from Kisumu to Mumias Town the night before the farmers protest match began the following morning. The goons were ferried in a fleet of six Nissan Matatus on hire.
According to our source, the goons, most of them consisting of the youth who are usually milling around ODM offices in Kisumu were armed with crude weapons such as rungus, simis and even machetes. They were drawn manly from Kisumu Bag Dad Boys. They were recruited from Mamboleo and Kondele suburbs of the City. They were hired at an agreed fees of Kshs 10,000 each. But the plans went sour when the power broker who was handling the deal later paid each one of the youth only Kshs 3,000 and pocketed the balance of Kshs 7,000 from each one of the more than 40 youths.
At the head of the farmers demonstration, three MPs joined the protest match in solidarity with sugar cane farmers. They included the outspoken Ikolomani MP, Dr Bonny Khalwale, Bifuoli Wakoli and Benjamin Washiali and Butula MP Alfred Odhiambo. The police lobbied teargas canisters on demonstrators after reading the disperse orders, and started chasing the demonstrating farmers in helter skelter, the hired goons moved in the confusion and melee that followed and attacked the MPs with sticks.
It is not clear as to who was the financier behind such an expensive and risky exercise, but our sources were quick in pointing out the suspicion fingers and allegations against the embattled management of the Mumias Sugar Company, which the demonstrators were protesting against at the time.
Mumias town is also getting the blame for having done a shoddy job and for failing to notice the presence of close 50 armed youths in Mumias at the time of the fracases.The number of strangers presence in the town was large enough to arose police suspicion. It is obvious the police might have noticed the suspicious looking strangers who swung into action and mercilessly beat up the Mps, who were conducting otherwise peaceful demonstration in solidarity with their supporters.
Instead, the police arrested Hon Washiali and charged him in court with incitement offense, while leaving the perpetrator of the violence to go, scott–free. Were the police compromised? Hon Washiali suffered a broken arm, and to add insult to injury, he was the one who was later arraigned in court…
According to other unconfirmed sources, the man who master minded the attack on the MPs is a loose-talking ODM operative in Kisumu, who is also masquerading as a business executive, and is a common feature in most of the City posh hotels.
This power broker has been always heard bragging in hotels that he is the confidant of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga, though our investigations have proved that he is not. He at times extort money from unsuspecting politicians that he is capable of hiring thugs and goons to eliminate their rivals..
This Kisumu power broker is a big talker and womanizer who is always surrounded by beautiful twilight girls, whom he is cheating that he is an important person within the society and yet he is just a common thug who is seen frequenting gambling Casinos in Town.
Sources in Mumias have told us that the residents have now appealed to the government to send an independent team of sleuths to the town to investigate and establish the truth about the person who had assaulted the MPs.
They claimed, the police only lobbied tear gas and chased demonstrators away breaking the protest match, but did not beat up anybody. The beating work was conducted by the hired goons from Kisumu who did it with impunity. Unless the identity of this “goons for hire“ boss is exposed they are likely to inflict more damages on peace loving citizens of this country.
The Mumias residents want such investigation not to be confined within Mumias alone, but should extend to Kisumu City so as to unearth the existence of political goons for hire.
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A special Correspondent
Date: Jul 21, 2009 11:50 AM
Subject: IT WAS HIRED KISUMU GOONS WHO BEAT UP MPS IN MUMIAS PROTEST MATCH