Four people including a Form Two student are nursing injuries at the Nakuru County Teaching and Referral Hospital after they were shot and injured by a group of Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers in an incident that took place in Barut, Nakuru County on Saturday evening.
Beatrice Adhiambo, the mother of Barrack Obama, 15, said he was outside when the KWS officers arrived in two land cruisers and committed the heinous act which has left his son to seek immediate medical attention.
“I saw my son fall and heard him call out my name just at the gate. He was writhing in pain,” she said.
Adhiambo claimed that she witnessed the officers shoot another boy as she was busy attending to her son.
Area Deputy County Commissioner Obed Mose while confirming the incident revealed that the authorities are ready to have the officers arrested after investigations are completed.
He said an investigation had been opened into the case and already the firearms used by the officers had already been confiscated as part of the probe into the incident.
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He appealed to the locals to cooperate and record statements for action to be taken against the officers.
At the same time, Nakuru Town West MP Samuel Arama termed the shooting barbaric and called for immediate probe into the matter.
“KWS officers are acting with impunity, the officers should stick to their boundary and safeguard the park and not terrorise locals in their homes,” he said.
According to the KWS officials, they had on May 25 spotted a group of men trespassing into the lake for illegal fishing prompting an operation aimed to chase them out of the park where a tussle erupted after another group of people started to throw stones at them prompting them to open fire which resulted to the injuring of the four.
By Vostine Ratemo
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