Goons disrupt Kisii Woman Rep Donya's Event Meant to Donate Wheelchairs to PWDs
One person got injured during the skirmishes which broke out amid the event.
BY MAGATI OBEBO
At least two people are in police custody, one injured following skirmishes at a charity function hosted by Kisii Woman Rep Donya Toto in South Mugirango.
Etago Sub-County Police Chief Laban Omolo said they are still tracking more other suspects.
The suspects are linked to the Monday morning mayhem which cut short Toto's function.
Donya was planning to donate wheelchairs to the disabled at Nyakeyo Primary when stones were hurled. One person sustained an arrow injury.
"So far we have arrested the duo and one of them was armed with bows and arrows and both will be arranged and charged for causing disturbances," Omolo told journalists shortly after the skirmishes subsided.
He said they had received intelligence of a possible raid by thugs at the function early and thus deployed officers to keep vigil.
The violence sent the attendees, among them the disabled, scampering for safety.
At least 90 persons with disabilities were evacuated from the venue.
Ms Donya has since castigated the incident even as she pressed security agencies to go for the merchants and financiers of violence.
She however said she would not back down from reaching out to the vulnerable even in the face of unrelenting attacks by goons.
"I am accustomed to these attacks and the violence directed to me but am strong enough to fight and continue with my work" Donya said.
She says she pity some people who can be this audacious as to cause mayhem at a function meant for the very vulnerable in society.
She appealed on police officers to arrest and bring more suspected hired goods to book.
"We all need to know the pioneer of these violence in Kisii. People are no longer feeling safer because of goonism in the County," she said.
However, families of those suffering various deformities that turned up to receive wheel chairs condemned the Monday violence.
Peter Anyega, who brought his disabled mum to receive a wheelchair described the attack as barberic.
Reuben Migiro, Chairman for the disabled in Tabaka Ward and who joined Donya in the function also condemned the incident.
He termed the incident as unfortunate, adding that it was immoral for people to deploy goons at a function meant for the very vulnerable in society.
"The function was only meant to empower the disabled. Whoever did this should be ashamed of himself," said the former education official who also lives with a disability.
He said it was not their choice that they were disabled. "We ask that those who were hired to orchestrate such mayhem to desist ," Migiro stated.
Esther Moraa who brought had brought her child to also get a wheelchair, also turned home empty-handed following the violence.
She said she was forced to run with the child on her back as chaos spread inside the school playing ground.
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