Kirinyaga Woman Rep Njeri Maina sustains head injuries after attack by goons

Drama was on Tuesday witnessed at the Kerugoya Police Station after two groups supporting rival political factions clashed, leaving Kirinyaga County Woman Representative Jane Njeri Maina nursing serious head injuries.

Njeri, who is also a lawyer, had accompanied her client Baragwi MCA David Mathenge to the station to record a statement over allegations of vandalizing a county government water project at Mukandu-ini village last week.

Addressing the press after recording the statement, the legislator said she would represent the MCA if he is taken to court.

“Mathenge had done nothing wrong because I was issuing cheques to a women’s group when residents of Mukandu-ini demanded water as the project had stayed for long and they were waiting for it to be opened and only one person had been using  water from the project,” she said.

Chaos began when suspected goons said to be aligned to Governor Anne Waiguru showed up to interrupt the presser, attacking supporters of the Woman Representative and the MCA in the process.

The over 10 rowdy youths threw stones at the lawmaker’s supporters and stole their phones, before they were eventually chased away.

“Why are the police watching from a distance when our people are being beaten by Waiguru’s goons?” Mathenge posed.

A second scuffle ensued as Njeri and Mathenge were walking with their supporters on the streets of Kerugoya  town, when another group started throwing stones at them.

In the process, the Woman Rep. was hit with a stone and seriously injured on the head, upon which she was rushed to the Kerugoya County Referral Hospital before being referred to the Nairobi Hospital with serious head injuries.

“We are transferring her using an ambulance to Nairobi Hospital where she had been referred because she was seriously injured,” Mathenge said.