Residents of Kisauni have been left in shock after a businesswoman was brutally attacked and her business premise set on ablaze. Police vehicle patrolling within the city. The gang raided Alice Nkirote’s shop at Tua Tugawe on Wednesday, April 3 at 2am and left her with severe injuries on both hands, ears and head. What happened when Alice Nkirote was attacked? Recalling the horrifying experience, she recounted how the assailants demanded cash, proceeded to restrain her by tying her hands, and then cruelly soaked her with petrol. Finally, they set her business establishment ablaze, leaving devastation in their wake, as reported by Citizen Digital. “They told me to get up and give them money. I asked them, ‘What money?’ They said the money that I had sold at the shop while they continued to beat me… I said I don’t know where it is, call my husband to give it to you…one of them lit a matchstick and then threw it on the sofa,” she narrated. Her husband, James Njilu, confirmed that the robbers made away with 18 filled gas cylinders, money, a television set and a radio. “All the clothes, shoes and our M-Pesa money got burnt inside. I mean the whole shop was also burnt down. Sasa mimi nimebaki vile nilivyo saa hii,” he said. Police have apprehended 8 suspects connected to the assault, one of whom is a 17-year-old minor, and retrieved some of the stolen items including a television set and radio. Footage of thieves stealing from Kinoti’s son’s shop CCTV footage of thieves stealing from former DCI boss, George Kinoti’s son’s shop in Biashara Street, Nairobi had been discovered. According to Anthony Mwenda, the three suspected thieves made away with gaming equipment worth KSh 1 million. The trio were comfortable throughout the process until one of them noticed the surveillance camera and interfered with the recording.
by Nancy Odindo
