Baringo: Mother Of Form 3 Student Narrates How Deceased Son Was Assaulted By KFS Rangers

• Stephen Mwangi was allegedly assaulted by officers from the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) on May 8
• He had gone to the Maji Mazuri Forest Station to rescue his mother when the officers reportedly descended on him
• The young man was taken to a health centre in Eldama Ravine before he was referred to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in whose ICU he died

Kai Eli, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

A woman from Eldama Ravine is crying for justice after her son succumbed to injuries following a beating allegedly by a group of Kenya Forest Service rangers.

Nineteen-year-old Stephen Mwangi had visited the Maji Mazuri Forest Station to negotiate his mother's release when he encountered the supposed rogue rangers.

How Baringo man died after encounter with KFS rangers

His mother had been arrested by the rangers after they found her with a tree trunk.

They demanded a KSh 2,500 bribe to release her.

She, however, did not have the needed cash, giving the KSh 1,500 she had.

The officers would insist on the full amount, prompting the woman to call her son to bring her the remainder.

"I called my son and sent him to another woman to collect the money. He came and while at the station, I felt like relieving my self but the officers would not excuse me, insisting that I relieve myself in front of my son," she recalled.

The aggrieved mother further revealed that the officers indecently handled her, irking her son, who resorted to facing off with the officers.

The officers reportedly turned on him and started beating him with blunt objects on the head.

Mwangi sustained serious injuries on the head and was taken to a health centre in Eldama Ravine before his referral to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital.

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Meanwhile, police arrested five rangers over their alleged involvement in the assault.

KFS officers in trouble after student's tragic death

Baringo Forest Conservator Ann Nyaoke confirmed that the quintet was apprehended by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives probing the case.

The arrest came hours after irate members of the public took on the police in running battles on the morning of Tuesday, May 14, after their motive to torch the KFS offices as retaliation was repulsed.

They barricaded the Majimazuri-Makutano Road to protest the assault that ended the young man's life.

Proofreading by Otukho Jackson, a multimedia journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke

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