Kenya: Mob Overpowers Police to Kill Suspected Motorbike Robber

12 November 2012

A boda boda operator in Kakamega who together with two accomplices snatched a motorbike at gunpoint was lynched by an angry mob on Friday.

The middle aged man was identified by the man whose bike he'd stolen a fortnight before and was then frogmarched to Kakamega police station where he took the police to Lwesero area to capture his accomplice.

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