A middle aged man is nursing injuries after he was beaten by a group of fellow male commercial sex workers in Mtwapa.
The angry group accused the victim of employing charms to win over white men who roam the streets of the town Kilifi County at night shopping for gay sex.
During the incident that took place on Saturday night, about six gay sex workers descended on their colleague, identified only with his trade name Fatma, after a lean muscled white man picked him over them.
According to Makena Mbiti, a commercial sex worker in the town who was among those who witnessed the incident, the men were angry because Fatma’s popularity with gay white tourists was soaring.
On this day, the irate male prostitutes reportedly snapped when the muscled man, accompanied by two heavy set black bodyguards, arrived and gave the whole group a casual look before whistling and winking at Fatma, who crossed the street to meet him.
“It was the third in the night that a white man was picking Fatma as his colleagues watched. They had warned him to leave, arguing that he had earned enough for the night and should let the white man to them. But he defied them.”