kenya: A Man Found With Three Arrows In The Back And Severe Head Wounds.
Image / (Reuters).
A body of a man was found in a sugarcane field in rural western Kenya on Sunday, A day after high-level officials visited the area aiming to calm ethnic tensions inflamed by the country’s repeated presidential election.
George Odumbe, 64-year-old Man, a Luo laborer at the local sugar company, was found with three arrows in the back and severe head wounds, the body was found in a field between Koguta and the nearby Kalenjin village of Mau, (Reuters).
The Luo community largely boycotted Thursday’s election, which was supposed to again pit opposition leader Raila Odinga, a Luo, against President Uhuru Kenyatta, a Kikuyu with a Kalenjin deputy president.
The Supreme Court ordered a repeat after it nullified Kenyatta’s win in an August election on procedural grounds.
The motive and perpetrators for the killing in western Kenya were unclear, but it came a day after villagers from the Luo and Kalenjin communities armed themselves against each other.
“There’s a desire for revenge by the Luo community, I’m trying to tell them to stay calm, but they are so bitter and angry,” Gordon Onyango, 32, a Luo, said. “The two sides are both having meetings now and they are both armed.”
Reuters was unable to speak with the Kalenjin community in Mau, but saw a group of young men from the village gathered under a tree. Most were armed with bows and arrows.
Odinga withdrew from the rerun election, saying it would not be fair. In his strongholds in the west, an area that has long felt excluded from political and economic power, protesters prevented polling stations from opening in four counties.
Image / (Reuters).
A body of a man was found in a sugarcane field in rural western Kenya on Sunday, A day after high-level officials visited the area aiming to calm ethnic tensions inflamed by the country’s repeated presidential election.
George Odumbe, 64-year-old Man, a Luo laborer at the local sugar company, was found with three arrows in the back and severe head wounds, the body was found in a field between Koguta and the nearby Kalenjin village of Mau, (Reuters).
The Luo community largely boycotted Thursday’s election, which was supposed to again pit opposition leader Raila Odinga, a Luo, against President Uhuru Kenyatta, a Kikuyu with a Kalenjin deputy president.
The Supreme Court ordered a repeat after it nullified Kenyatta’s win in an August election on procedural grounds.
The motive and perpetrators for the killing in western Kenya were unclear, but it came a day after villagers from the Luo and Kalenjin communities armed themselves against each other.
“There’s a desire for revenge by the Luo community, I’m trying to tell them to stay calm, but they are so bitter and angry,” Gordon Onyango, 32, a Luo, said. “The two sides are both having meetings now and they are both armed.”
Reuters was unable to speak with the Kalenjin community in Mau, but saw a group of young men from the village gathered under a tree. Most were armed with bows and arrows.
Odinga withdrew from the rerun election, saying it would not be fair. In his strongholds in the west, an area that has long felt excluded from political and economic power, protesters prevented polling stations from opening in four counties.
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