Not shouting for help made me survive a gang attack in Salgaa
A yellow tape indicating a crime scene.
I find Samuel* lying on his bed at the furthest corner of a hospital ward at Nakuru level 5 hospital.
He is nursing injuries after being attacked by two young men suspected to be part of a gang terrorising residents in Nakuru.
The ward is full, all the beds are occupied by patients that are in different states of receiving treatment.
A good number of patients seemed to be recovering while others lied hopelessly with bandages covering their wounded parts.
But our focus today is on Samuel.
One of his dislocated leg is bandaged and lies slightly outside the bed. It takes us a few minutes to convince him to share his ordeal with us as he fears that the gang members would trace and kill him for speaking.
And also because a similar incident happened to his father not long ago, where he was attacked and robbed. He believes that the same gang that attacked his father is the one that attacked him.
His unfortunate encounter that almost cost him his life happened when he was leaving work.
Samuel a mason by profession, was leaving work in Salgaa, when he decided to go for his bicycle that he had left in town before he proceeded home to Pipeline.
While riding his bicycle at around 7:30 pm, Samuel met two young boys at Shiners girls’ high school who hit him hard on his knee that he fell to the ground.
When he tried to stand up and run for his life he realised that he had broken his knee. He tried to shout for help but his assailants threatened to stab him with a knife he made any noise.
His attackers proceeded to rob him of the money he had and also took his mobile phone and left him for dead.
Fortunately a Bodaboda rider would pass to where he was still lying on the ground and took Samuel to his parents’ house. After seeing their sons injured state they rushed him to Nakuru level 5 hospital, where he has been receiving treatment.
“I was seriously injured that I had to go to theatre and later have a metal placed in my knee as it was broken,” Samuel said.
Already he has spent Sh12,000 for his treatment and still has a balance of Sh22,000 which he needs to clear.
His hope is that he will get well-wishers who will help him offset the hospital bill so that he can go back home to his family.