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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

CRIME WATCH

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Chilling Eyewitness Account Of Coast Bus Hijacking. Hijackers "Inspected" Women Passengers' Private Parts With Torches Before Rape

I managed to track down an eyewitness of the ill-fated Coast Bus Hijacking that happened last weekend (Saturday night) and yesterday I sat horrified and sickened as he described in great detail his ordeal of pure horrendous terror in the hands of armed thugs, together with other passengers somewhere in the bush near Emali.

Let me say that some Kenyans live in ignorant bliss and seem to get very upset when served with the often unpalatable truth. One reader of the popular Mashada site got very upset reading my article on this issue which had been re-posted there by somebody. Especially when I revealed that Matatus in Nairobi are hijacked all the time and women passengers raped, sometimes in full view of the other passengers, this reader was sure that I had made up the whole thing and did not mince his words. He asked me to produce evidence, calling me a liar. He just could not believe that such a serious thing would go unreported or half-reported in the mainstream media.

Well, sir, if you are still out there reading this, here is a perfect example of something that was half-reported with all the gory details being carefully left out.

It is instructive that the Coast Bus headed for Mombasa from Nairobi, passed several police checks and on some of them thorough inspection for weapons was carried out. Our eyewitness believes that the weapons used in the incident were not on the bus until somewhere in Makutano (junction of Machakos Road and the main Nairobi Mombasa highway-where the sixth hijacker boarded the bus carrying a bulky bag). Interestingly after this point, the bus passed only one additional roadblock and then there were no more until the time the thugs took control of the bus at Emali. This clearly illustrates the fact that the gangsters had done their homework well. Even more interesting is the fact that one of them was seen by several passengers with a two-way radio similar to the ones the police use and was discreetly seen using it. Was he listening in on police communication?

Admittedly two way radios are common these days and anybody can acquire one, if they go through the proper licensing procedures. However in view of what happened that night, this is bound to raise lots of suspicion.

"I sat next to one of the hijackers," our eyewitness picks up the tale, "and he kept in fiddling with his mobile phone sending and receiving messages. He finally spoke to somebody on the phone, most probably the person he had been sending and receiving messages from, shortly before the gang took control of the bus. They spoke in Kikamba so I could not understand what they were saying."

"At Emali, I suddenly heard two loud gun shots and on looking up I realized that a man right at the front whom I had earlier noticed being very friendly to the policemen who boarded the bus to carry out searches at the road blocks, had shot dead the driver of the bus. The thug had even earlier conversed in Kalenjin to one of the policemen."

Passengers were then told to lie down on the floor of the bus and anybody who would show as much as their head would get shot immediately. The bus was then diverted and driven into the bushes for about 10 kilometres. Emali is before Kibwezi and Mtito Andei on the way to Mombasa from Nairobi.

Passengers were then ordered to surrender their mobile phones and cash. Our eyewitness says: "I was still on the floor when I heard a commotion with one of the thugs saying that a passenger had attempted to conceal their mobile phone. Again two shots rang out and I feared the worst. Later we discovered that miraculously both bullets had only grazed the top of his head and the man survived the ordeal." The would be victim may have been helped by the fact that the place was pitch dark and the only source of light were the powerful flash lights used by the thugs.

After the loot had been gathered, the entire luggage was taken down from the bus and the contents carefully inspected, anything of value was taken. At the end of the ordeal there was a confusion of all the personal effects from the various bags mixed together in one huge pile on the ground outside the bus.

The thugs then started literally stripping the women passengers naked and carefully inspecting their private parts with the powerful flash lights they were carrying. Our eyewitness says he thought he saw one of the thugs actually try to smell one of the women's private parts. A few women were dismissed as being "sick and infected." The women selected for rape were about four in number and the six thugs then raped them in turns using condoms. This clearly illustrates that they had come prepared, knowing exactly what they were going to do after they had robbed the passengers. This happened in the open field area where the bus had been stopped.

The women had earlier pleaded with the thugs not to carry out the rape but to no avail. Our eyewitness says that their desperate pleadings and begging still occasionally rings in his ears.

"Those guys can't have been human. All elements of being human had departed from them," the eyewitness quipped to this writer. The whole ordeal lasted about 3 hours.

What is frightening is that the arithmetic of the whole crime doesn't make any sense. Assuming that the bus was carrying about 70 passengers each carrying an average of Kshs 2,000 and a mobile phone (which would be sold at about 2,000 being so "hot") that would have yielded a total of Kshs 280,000. Assume that there was an extraordinarily high amount of cash on the bus and even double that figure and you would still get Kshs 560,000. Divide that by six and you get a paltry 93,333 for each gang member and that does not even take into account the costs of the operations and the fact that others who assisted would have had to be paid. Hardly the sort of money worth carrying out such a violent capital offence crime for. And that is the really scary thing about escalating crime in Kenya .

7 Comments:

Blogger Alice said...

Hi am Alice, I wld like to thank all of u people for posting your experiences and the security tips you are giving.

My request is to the breakfast crew, if its posible call the police commisioner and even the government spokes man tell them to read this (blog spot) so they can know what the "Kawaida" person experience has to go thru everyday.

10:34 am  
Blogger Sele said...

what the fcuk is happeing to this country?
i dont think these criminals are that economicaly disprivilaged that that they resort to such barbaric acts.
some of these stories make me sick to the core!!!

12:28 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That story made me want to cry. There is so much going in the country and has been for sometime, that i wonder what happens to Kenya in the next 5 years.

And many thanks Capital for all you that are doing to keep us informed.

Virginia

9:20 am  
Blogger munyanta said...

its a really sad story, i pray for some divine comfort to go out to all those innocent passengers. i think all PSV'S should be fitted with an emergency distress button to send out an immediate SOS alert to cops whenever they are hijacked. cops should also style up and use choppers to attend to desperate situations in the least time possible.

6:59 pm  
Blogger Unknown said...

if you ask me........this is the worst that can happen,it cant get worse than this and its a shame that we the kawaida pple pay the price for a sleepy adminstration..........my heart goes out to the passengers of the ill-fated bus and especially the 4 ladies.......sometimes i really think we share our country with aliens.........shame on them....this is so sickening

6:05 pm  
Blogger Unknown said...

I am cannot believe this , I mean I can but cannot believe it's happenning . Why do'nt we just allow everbody to own a gun , sure thugs will have 'em but so will everbody else . Snoop was right - it's kill or be killed is how a N survive - And forget the Police , we know where their loyalty is , plus they practice thuggery in uniform . While the "polluticians" are talking crap that wont change a thing . Always wondered , why can't the media just give them a blackout , report only things that we need them to do that they aint doing , make it uncomfy for them , maybe they'll listen . One last quote - Pac was right - Politicians are hypocrites they do'nt wanna listen.

Vic.
Harrisburg,
PA

3:54 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi, guys, i just read this disturbing piece of news and i have to say that whoever believes that such evil isn't alive in kenya is grossly misinformed and i want to thank the guy for letting us know; those of us who didn't know. you know what, i think the media should keep on highlighting such things everyday in the news until our government decides to do something about it and most importantly do it! i personally think that our politicians live in a fanfasy world where they don,t believe such things do happen coz they have all the available security in the country taking them to parties, take their families shopping and not to even key parliament debates on such issues as security, and women protection; they never know how it feels till it happens to them, just ask Mukhisa Kituyi. they should know that we are sick and tired of this constant insanity and decide to let this kind of people know that they mean business coz it's the only way we're going to make headway in dealing with this situaton.

i have a suggestion, and i think that it will help get those sluggers on their feet and do something about it.

i propose that we as the ordinary mwananchi, demand that our politicians be limited to at most 3 security personel for their entire family and if they want more, they hire private security, lord knows they have more than enough money for that.

i think this will help them behave and do something about insecurity in kenya. maybe those 3 are even too much considering an ordinary kenyan has to wait for a week, a whole month or at times excruciating years for the police to respond to their problems.

this is a very important opportunity that we have thanks to you guys coz we can address our plights as kenyans here. but i think that, now that we have addressed some of the problems, we now need to put our politicians to task about security in our respective areas, and if they do not live up to their duties, we should make them tell the country publicly why they think their constituents do not need security! i would love to see someone like Norman Nyagah- Makadara constituency, answer a question like that!

10:08 pm  

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