41 street children aged between 12 and 26 years old were rounded up on Wednesday night by Nakuru County Officials and dumped in Chemusus Forest in Eldama Ravine, Baringo County.
The street children were bundled in vehicles with the lucrative promise that they were being taken to school. A 26 year old Jackson Kuka narrated that the county officials approached them with the promise that young street children would be taken to primary school, while the rest of them would be taken to colleges.
Those who seemed not to buy into the county officials’ offer were forcefully bundled into waiting lorries. The 26 year old reported that some of them were handcuffed and thrown into the waiting lorries.
Mkokoteni operators were not spared too! Fred Etibou, a father of two was lured into a car waiting on Mburu Gichua road.
He was promised of a a better paying job and was surprised to find his fellow mkokoteni pullers packed into the waiting vehicle. He narrated that the car snaked out of the town in the wee hours of the night, only to stop very far form the pick-up point, in the middle of a forest. Chesmus Forest is located in Baringo County and is at least 75 kilometers away from Nakuru town.