BY JEFF OTIENO

An NGO Operative Dr. Hezron MC Obewa together with his wife was last night attacked by thugs and sustained a gun shot wound in his left arm.

Speaking to the press in his hospital bed at Aga-Khan Hospital in Kisumu, the NGO guru who is also the Director of OGRA FOUNDATION and the Proprietor of Savannah group of hotels said his night ordeal at the hands of these notorious well coordinated thugs lasted for about two hours.

“At about 9p.m while I was heading home and immediately the watchman opened the gate for me, four well armed men forced their way into the precincts of my compound after battering my watchman mercilessly before they started ransacking my house” , he said.

Inside the house they took all ATM cards, phones and cash of about Ksh.13, 000 which was in his pocket and ordered that they accompany them to unknown destination with their car.

“They took us towards the sugar belt area of Miwani and ordered that they wanted Ksh. 100,000 as a condition for our release”, the youthful tycoon narrated.

The duo had no alternative but to talk to a brother in law who was in the compound when they were being bundled in their car to arrange for the ransom.

He however only managed to get Ksh. 50,000 which he took to the captives in the company of well dreaded flying squad officers.

It took the NGO guru a couple of minutes to plead with the heartless thugs while carrying up his hands that he could only manage half of the amount they were demanding. In an apparent rage that they were not impressed by the amount, the thugs shot him on the left arm, warning him that how dare could he walk with less money in the wee hours of the night.

Interestingly, when the ransom was being handed over it was a distance of about 10metres between the four armed thugs and the four well armed officers. “The officers just decided to shoot in the air to my disbelief”, MC Obewa told this writer.

During the ordeal however, the wife didn’t sustain any injury but was also rushed to the hospital to be treated for shock. The watchman was also treated and discharged.

Kisumu city and its environs is of late a wash with incidences of robberies and many observers attribute it to complacency of the local police. Last week a medical doctor who is a neighbour of Dr. MC Obewa was carjacked and robbed of his vehicle by the gate.

Dr. Chris Oyoo was bundled and taken to all his bank accounts and the clique managed to milk dry all his monies using ATM cards.

He however managed to recover his car after a couple of days.

Still in the same insecurity plagued leafy neighborhood of Mamboleo suburbs, an insurance Executive Albert Ojonyo was attacked by burglars who took all his belongings while they were asleep, he wasn’t injured in the drama though.

Other victims are a former airline boss Christian Gogo, former Kisumu Town West 2007 Parliamentary Aspirant who is also a member of the civil society Joshua Nyamori and the Provincial Medical Officer Nyanza Dr. Ojwang Lucy.

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