Police in Africa are all the same. When we are talking about
bribery and corruptions they can never be found wanting. Extra-judicial killings,
lies and deceits are their trade mark.
According to the Nairobi-based Daily Nation newspaper, it
reported that a 16-year-old girl known by the pseudonym Liz, to protect
her identity was gang raped by six men and thrown into a pit latrine in Kenyan
town in June.
Liz, according to the source was attacked while walking home from her grandfather’s funeral in Busia county in western Kenya.
When her unconscious body was thrown into a 6-metre deep pit latrine, she was lucky to survive but due to the injuries she sustained from the assault, Liz is now confined to a wheelchair.
After regaining her consciousness, she was able to recognize three of her assailants and the case was subsequently reported to the police. But what really baffled the whole world was that the police merely asked the gang-rapists to cut grass as a form of punishment and let go!
However, there has been a wave of outrage in Kenya since word got out that the rapists only got some lawn work to do.
According to an activist group Avaaz,they said that:“Nobody has been brought to justice — not the rapists, and not the police,” according to a petition on the website of campaign group Avaaz.org. “Today, we change that. Let’s stand with Liz right now, before her attackers and the police escape”,
Supreme Court Chief Justice Willy Mutunga last weekend said he had forwarded the matter to the National Council for Administration of Justice for “immediate action.” Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said that “as a woman and a mother I am outraged and angered by this inhumane, traumatizing and inexcusable violation.”
It was gathered that the cultural traditions in that area mandate any rape victim leave her home and move to another town where, in theory, people will not know that she has been raped.
Muthiani labeled rape an “invisible crime” in Kenya because it is underreported and rarely acted on judicially.
The chairman of a local council of elders in Busia County, Alfred Ouma: said he wants “severe action” taken against the officers who initially received the rape complaint and “mishandled it.”
Liz, according to the source was attacked while walking home from her grandfather’s funeral in Busia county in western Kenya.
When her unconscious body was thrown into a 6-metre deep pit latrine, she was lucky to survive but due to the injuries she sustained from the assault, Liz is now confined to a wheelchair.
After regaining her consciousness, she was able to recognize three of her assailants and the case was subsequently reported to the police. But what really baffled the whole world was that the police merely asked the gang-rapists to cut grass as a form of punishment and let go!
However, there has been a wave of outrage in Kenya since word got out that the rapists only got some lawn work to do.
According to an activist group Avaaz,they said that:“Nobody has been brought to justice — not the rapists, and not the police,” according to a petition on the website of campaign group Avaaz.org. “Today, we change that. Let’s stand with Liz right now, before her attackers and the police escape”,
Supreme Court Chief Justice Willy Mutunga last weekend said he had forwarded the matter to the National Council for Administration of Justice for “immediate action.” Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said that “as a woman and a mother I am outraged and angered by this inhumane, traumatizing and inexcusable violation.”
It was gathered that the cultural traditions in that area mandate any rape victim leave her home and move to another town where, in theory, people will not know that she has been raped.
Muthiani labeled rape an “invisible crime” in Kenya because it is underreported and rarely acted on judicially.
The chairman of a local council of elders in Busia County, Alfred Ouma: said he wants “severe action” taken against the officers who initially received the rape complaint and “mishandled it.”
The
victim’s grandmother said:“I want those policemen that released the boys that
they had in custody to arrest the parents of the boys who raped my
granddaughter so that they can say where the boys are hiding,” the grandmother
said
Source: Daily Nation, Nairobi.
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