This archive report was first published on 16 September 2021.
On Saturday night, a brutal attack left a mathematics teacher at St John's Secondary School in Saboti nursing head and neck injuries. The incident occurred when Nicholas Bett, a teacher at the school, went to an outside latrine and was ambushed by three Form Four students.
According to Bett, the students emerged from a maize plantation near his home, a few meters away from the school, and attacked him with a blunt object. Two of the students allegedly waylaid him, warning him that he would face the music for being a nuisance, before the third student struck him hard with the object.
Bett was able to identify the students despite their civilian clothing, and now fears for his life. The incident was reported at Gitwamba Police Station.
Elsewhere, a family from Isiolo is seeking the government's help in tracing their son, a policeman who was allegedly abducted on Thika highway on Monday night. Sergent Osman Omari Godana, 38, was driving a vehicle with four people on board when they were intercepted near Blue Post Hotel. He was the only one ordered out and bundled into a waiting vehicle along the Nyeri-Nairobi highway.
Abdi Kara, a passenger in the vehicle driven by the abducted policeman, described the scene as gun-toting persons in bulletproof jackets snatching the policeman and bundling him into their vehicle, leaving the occupants unharmed but stranded.
The policeman's father, Omari Godana Dida, recounted the pain the family has been going through since his disappearance, saying, "They said they have been looking for him and the mission was now accomplished." The policeman was formerly attached to the General Service Unit (GSU) before being moved to Laisamis police.
