This archive report was first published on 7 January 2020.
On January 7, 2020, a tragic incident occurred in Bisembe Village, Nyamira County, where a Kenya Women Finance Trust Bank employee was brutally hacked to death by a man believed to be a client of the institution.
The victim, identified as Eric Kaluki, a Business Development Officer from the Ikonge Branch, was on a work mission to meet a women's group when the assailant, Anderson Mokaya, aged 32, attacked him.
According to eyewitnesses, Mokaya demanded to know why Kaluki had not paid him his shares, which he had been saving with the bank. In a fit of rage, Mokaya severed Kaluki's hand with a panga and cut him severely at the back of his neck, back, and legs.
Despite efforts to save him, Kaluki died instantly due to excessive bleeding caused by the severe cut wounds.
The incident has been condemned by the Ikonge Town Market Chairman of traders, John Onsoti, who described it as isolated. The police are currently pursuing Mokaya, who is still at large.
