By PHILIP BWAYO pbwayo@ke.nationmedia.com AND JONATHAN KOMEN jkomen@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Saturday, April 7 2012 at 22:30
Posted Saturday, April 7 2012 at 22:30
November 2, 2009 will remain etched in the mind of Joseph Loling’oreng. The father of seven had set out on a mission to locate his missing cattle when he was stopped by GSU officers based at Keritka camp who wanted to know why he was out at that time.
According to him, the officers said: “We will show you why we were brought specifically to deal with the stubborn Pokot community”
Displaying marks of how he was brutally beaten, Lolingoreng narrates how he was subjected to a one and half hour beating.
“I was heavily beaten and when I attempted to run away, they threatened to shoot me,” he told Sunday Nation, yesterday. Loling’oreng says he was stripped naked by the officers who laid his legs apart and in turn stepped on his genitals.
“They applied pepper on all the openings on my body then afterwards tied my leg on a tall tree in the camp and left me hanging,” he said.
He says he was rescued by a senior officer at the camp who he could not recall and who organised for him to be taken to Kapenguria hospital. During the same time, the victim says he saw other six people who went through a similar ordeal in the hands of the officers.
He further says the security officials dared him to call anybody he believed could rescue him. “They told me to call former Kapenguria MP Samuel Moroto and tell him all that had happened,” Lolingoreng further claims the ordeal affected him healthwise as he suffers chest complications and his sex life has been severely affected.
“He really suffered and to-date he has a problem when performing his conjugal duties,” his wife Teresa Chemutai adds.
A footage of the incident was aired on NTV on Thursday in which more than 10 officers are seen torturing a young-looking man.
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