A Mombasa based TikToker who frequently comments on political issues relating to the county is currently nursing injuries after he was reportedly manhandled and sodomised by suspects known to him.
The 25-year-old social media influencer found himself embroiled in trouble after he reportedly used his online space to lodge personal attacks on the county leadership.
After sustained online combats with rival political sycophants, the TikToker known for perfecting the art of online abusive attacks went live on TikTok one evening hurling unprintable insults in video he dragged the name of a senior county boss and his family members.
Speaking to the media from his hospital bed at Beyond Scope Hospital—a private medical facility in Kisauni where he was treated and discharged, the TikToker said on Thursday last week he was picked by a group of men from his room in the morning.
“I was asleep at around 8am when I heard my door kicked open. On checking, I saw familiar faces who asked me to accompany them to apologise to the senior county official for the abuses I had hurled against him. In the house, there were like 10 men but there was another group of about 10 waiting outside on motorbikes,” he explained.
The man says he was told he would be ferried to a Nyali hotel to mend fences with the county official not knowing he was about to be subjected to one of the most dehumanising tortures any man could imagine.
Political activist
On arrival outside the hotel, the TikToker-cum-political activist recalls seeing a saloon car speeding towards where they were waiting before he was hounded inside and sandwiched by two men before the vehicle drove off.
During this time as the vehicle snaked through the Fidel Odinga Road towards Kengeleni junction to join the Nyali Bridge on the way to Mombasa west mainland, he was plunged into total confusion as he was caught unaware by his tormentors.
He would realise things were about to get worse when his tormentors told him that the story about apologising to the county official was all cooked up lies.
“They told me I have been going overboard with my social media videos criticising the county and they wanted to perform some acts on me that I will never repeat such,” he said in between sobs as beads of tears rolled down his cheeks.
He would then be blind-folded in a sack as the journey progressed.
After sustained blows and kicks, the vehicle would pull off at a secluded thicket near the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Miritini terminus where the worst would happen.
“After beating me up I thought that I had enough of the punishment but I was wrong. They pulled me out of the car and beat me up again. I was not aware they had also hired two street boys. The ones who go round onboard the garbage collection lorries. The two were somewhere on standby. After I was held by the other men with all my arms and legs and one had stepped on my head, I saw the two street boys undress me. They sodomised me in turns as the other men video-recorded the act,” he said before bursting into tears.
Under probe
Thereafter, he said his both hands were tied before being put in a sack again and bundled in the rear of the car this time round.
His family alleged there was a deliberate delay to handle his case at the Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital prompting them to transfer him to Beyond Scope where he treated and discharged.
The matter was reported at Bamburi Police Station that Thursday at 1756hrs under OB No.39.
Coast Regional Police Coordinator Peter Kimani says the matter is under investigations. “We are aware of the case which we are investigating and all those culpable would be arrested and made to face the law.”
