Gor Mahia fans accosted in Molo
Courtesy of EA Standard
Forty-six Gor Mahia fans were Monday carjacked by a group of eight armed thugs at Kibunja in Molo after they posed as police officers manning a roadblock.
The fans were on their way to Nairobi from Mumias Sports Complex after watching their team lose 2-1 to Western Stima in a Kenyan Premier League match on Sunday.
The thugs waved down the driver of the Mitsubishi vehicle registration Number KBV 062A at 2am and ordered him out of the vehicle and hand over the ignition keys to them.
The thugs were fully dressed in police uniforms and were armed with rifles according to victims interviewed at Molo Police Station where the bus was stationed after the ordeal.
Sensing danger, the bus driver released the ignition keys to one of the thugs who commandeered it to a nearby bush where they found an earlier carjacked Mololine Matatu registration Number KBF 130S.
The Gor Mahia fans refused to let in the thugs through the main door forcing them to break four windows using the gun butts.
The thugs then ransacked all the fans and stole their valuables, which included money, mobiles phones and other personal effects.
The bus driver Charles Njuguna said he heard one of the thugs speak in Dholuo to sensitise the fans of the danger if they resisted while the other three were conversing in a different language.
“They told us to obey their orders if we wanted to be safe,” a shaken driver who was bare feet after he lost his shoes and Sh25,000 to the thugs.
While in the forest, one of the thugs raped a twenty-year-old lady who was a passenger in the Mololine Nissan, which was travelling from Eldoret to Nakuru.
She was later admitted at the Molo District Hospital where doctors said she was in a stable condition.
“The patient is okay although she is a bit shocked from the inhumane act. She has received medication and is responding to treatment well,” said one of the doctors attending to the lady.
Molo OCPD Job Lesikinwa confirmed the incident and said they were following crucial leads.
He called on motorists to ignore any road block at night which is manned by people purporting to be police officers without a police vehicle.
The Nissan Matatu driver John Kamau said they were carjacked at midnight by thugs who wore police uniforms and were all armed with rifles.
One of the passengers in the matatu Isaac Simiyu said he lost Sh3,000, shoes and documents which included two ATM cards and his national Identification card.
Nakuru County Governor Kinuthia Mbugua who toured Molo on Monday with his cabinet decried the rising insecurity in the area.
He said he would push for the transfer of all police officers who had over stayed in the area.
This is really bad but I monitored what Mr. Oganjo Trailer posted on 27-May-2013 and somehow there is a conspiracy to attack GM fans whenever an opportunity arises. I tell you we need to walk in groups before and after our matches…
Read below from Trailer:
Ooo Laaa la..!!! ” FOCUS ON THE NEXT MATCH. PERIOD.!!!”
We played and lost; period and that is the bottom line. The rest of our imagination are as simple as wishful thinking. As much as i will also denounce poor officiating, it is high time that we also notice that it happens to both side of the divide “The Big boys and the Minors”.
Mosoti escaped a clean red card during Top 8 due to biased officiating when Gor played Tusker and so GOR should be prepared for the same dose especially when playing away matches.
When the Big Boys namely GM & AFC are affected the issue is taken a notch higher by thugs who impersonate as their passionate fans and this will kill local football.
1. AFC vs CHEMELIL Top 8 Fan invades pitch and nothing happens. The issue at stake was biased decision from the referee and what happened next we all know.
2. AFC Vs GOR: Thugs from both sides stopped the match for 10 minutes enjoying themselves in some stone throwing competition, while Police does nothing to stop the incident until the scenario turns ugly. After the match GOR “thugs” invade the city centre singing abusive and politically connected songs and the rest we all know what took place.
3. GOR vs SoNy: police lobs unnecessary tear gas to fans and their is no crowd trouble to merit his action.Eventually GOR “thugs” invade Muthurwa market and destroy innocent hawkers properties. This behavior is uncalled for and must stop.
4. GOR Vs CITY STAR matches ends peacefully but Muthurwa hawkers had planned for revenge and as such their is bad blood between this two groups and no body knows what is in stock.
5. AFC Vs Mathare police lobs tear gas to AFC fans who were leaving the stadium very peaceful thus resulting into anger and reactions that lead to burning of innocent hawkers properties along jogoo rd /city stadium.
6. Gor Vs W/ Stima: Referee ambushed in Kisumu and beaten seriously while 33 gor fans are way laid and car jacked along Eldoret / Nakuru junction and robbed of their valuables in the bush
WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN GOR PLAY THIKA AWAY AND WITH THE KIND OF POLITICALLY BAD BLOOD BETWEEN OUR “GOONS” AND THEIR “HAWKERS”. FOOD FOR THOUGHT AND DO NOT LET FOOTBALL TO MESS UP WITH YOUR LIFE DUE SOME “QUACKS” IN THE GREEN JERSEY.