A woman was hanging behind a speeding pickup, with her lower limbs on the tarmac. And about 300 metres later, a bruised Beatrice Magolo dropped off from the Kisumu County enforcement vehicle, right at the gate of Kisumu Central Police Station. As Magolo tried to resist, other hawkers and bodaboda operators noticed the melee and surge towards the scene, forcing the pickup driver to speed off. “This is impunity, and the County Government of Kisumu must be held responsible,” Michael Odongo Ojuang’wrote on Facebook. “I have watched this clip in total disapproval of the inhumane handling of our hawkers by the County Government Askaris.

Source: Standard Digital March 24, 2021 12:22 UTC