Detective in Maseno Police Station are holding a 23-year –old male student at Maseno University after preliminary investigations implicated his involvement in a violent robbery and raping two fellow students.
The suspect, Jacktone Oluoch Owiti was ambushed by the police the authorities at his rented apartment located in Maseno’s Chulaimbo area in connection to the incident which took place on the night of April 14, 2024 where he was found with one of the victim’s phones which was stolen on the very same day that the incidents took place.
In the April incident reported to the police by a member of community policing within Nyawita area, the two first year students aged 19 and 20 respectively, were attacked while sleeping in their shared room in the dead of the night, by two assailants who were armed heavily with a machete and a dagger.
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The assailants are reported to have kicked the door open and threatened the fear-stricken girls with stabs should they make a murmur, before going forward to force themselves on the victims before disappearing with their smartphones.
After making sure that the attackers were out of vicinity, the victims screamed for help where neighbours responded by assisting them to a local hospital for medical attention.
Kisumu West detectives who relentlessly pursued the case eventually caught up with the first suspect on May 15, who was yesterday paraded for identification, DNA sampling conducted and later arraigned.
New leads to his accomplice(s) have since been obtained and the investigators are hot on their trail.
By Vostine Ratemo
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