3 KFS Officers Charged For Shooting, Beating To Death Of Boda Boda Rider
Three Kenya Forest Service (KFS) officials from the Narasha Forest Station in Baringo County who were arrested for assault will face new charges of murder on Monday.
This comes after 26-year-old Augustine Kipng’etich died two days ago from injuries allegedly inflicted by officers, including a gunshot wound.
The three, Robert Ngilimo, Hillary Bett, and McDonald Wafula, were charged on Thursday at the Eldama Ravine Law Courts with assaulting boda boda operators ordered by a client to retrieve fencing posts from a forest.
Kipng’etich’s family, which lives near the Narasha Forest, claims he was asked to retrieve fencing posts from within the forest.
When they heard a gunshot from a residence and realized their kid had gone there, they went to find out what had happened.
The deceased’s father Paul Rotich said: “Aliitwa kwa msituni aende asaidie wengine kazi…mtu ya boda si anaitwa kila mahali…sasa yeye alienda akashikwa…kufika huko napata wametwanga kijana yangu wameua.”
His mother Jane Rotich added: “Kufika huko askari wakatufukuza, nikamwambia sasa unanifukuza si ni heri nione huyu kijana ni mtoto wangu…”
KFS officers are accused of killing boda boda rider.
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Kipngetich was shot in narasha forest in baringo.He died while receiving treatment in Nakuru Provincial Hospital.
The DCI should investigate this matter,The KWS and KFS have been doing this for a long time,killing innocent… pic.twitter.com/0LUmfU7fnp
“Akaniambia mamaa hatutaki wewe hapa…nikatumia nguvu nikienda wananizuia na bunduki…saa ile nilifika huko nikakuta kijana wangu anataka kukufa.”
Kipng’etich had already been assaulted and had a gunshot wound in his right leg.
In an effort to correct their wrongs, the officers hurried the corpse to the Eldama Ravine sub-county hospital.
He was brought to the Nakuru referral hospital after it became clear that nothing could be done for him at the Eldama Ravine facility, and he died the next day.
“My husband was a caring person, venye hawa maaskari waliniambia ati tunaezakufa wote…niko na watoto wadogo,” Kipng’etich’s widow Doreen Chebich said.
“What will I do now? I’m still young, only 21 years, we were just growing, nitafanya nini?”
The officers who were charged with assault on Thursday will appear in court again on Monday for murder charges.
The Kenya Forest Service acknowledges the occurrence but claims the assault was unjustified.
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“That is a very unfortunate incident. We do not condone such kind of an incident,” stated Chief Conservator of Forests, Alex Lemarkoko.
“We don’t condone that kind of relationship between our rangers, our security personnel and the members of public.”
Kipng’etich’s family believes that the three rangers should face the full force of the law.
Marakwest West MP Timothy Toroitich said: “Officers from KFS should never take law into their own hands by attacking, shooting, killing innocent people because the law presumes under article 50 that everybody is innocent until proven guilty.”
3 KFS Officers Charged For Shooting, Beating To Death Of Boda Boda Rider
