Kibabii University student gang-raped, stabbed in private parts while returning from nightclub with boyfriend

A Second-Year student at Kibabii University is fighting for her life at the Bungoma West Hospital after she was gang-raped at 3:30am Saturday.

The victim was in the company of her boyfriend, who is also a Second-Year student at Kibabii, when the incident happened.

The lovebirds were returning to the hostels after spending Friday night at a nightclub in Kanduyi.

A five-man gang waylaid the couple meters to the university and whipped out crude weapons. The victim’s boyfriend managed to free himself and took off, leaving his girlfriend behind.

The female student was raped in turns by the five-man gang, who also cut her in the buttocks before stabbing her in the private parts.

Her boyfriend ran to the hostels and informed other students, who rushed to the scene, but found the criminals had already fled.

The students took the victim who was unconscious to Bungoma West Hospital, where she is receiving treatment.

Dr Dennis Sande of Bungoma West Hospital told K24 Digital that they took the patient to theatre for a surgical operation.

“We are planning to transfer her to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret for advanced medical attention,” said Dr Sande while appealing for blood donation.

And in a separate incident, a female Second-Year student at the same university managed to outrun robbers, who had waylaid her at 4am Saturday, when she was heading to the hostels at Kibabii.

The learner, who had planned to go for a Taekwondo competition in Homa Bay, told K24 Digital that she was going to collect bus-fare from the hostels, when the incident happened.

The student said the robbers asked her to hand over her phone to them, and while they were waiting as she put her hands in the pocket, she bolted, leaving the robbers behind. The criminals attempted to corner the learner, but she outrun them.

Dr Sande of Bungoma West hospital said the second victim, who was also taken to the hospital with minor injuries, was treated and discharged.

Confirming the incidents, Bungoma South OCPD Wilson Nanga said police have launched a hunt for the gang that has been terrorising the university students.

“I urge residents to share information that will help lead to the arrest of the culprits,” he said.

The February 29 rape incident comes three months after another student at the same university was brutally sexually assaulted in November 2019.

The Third-Year Bachelor of Science (Renewable Energy and Bio-Fuels Technology) learner was raped by a lone assailant at around 5am on November 22 two hundred meters from her rented house in Kibabii, Bungoma Town.

The vicenarian, at the time, told K24 Digital that she was heading home with her friends after spending the night of November 21 at an entertainment joint in Bungoma Town, when the aggressor confronted them.

Her friends managed to escape, but she did not.

The student said the man raped and, thereafter, severed her left arm from her body. The attacker then tied a barbed wire on the then-bleeding stem of the upper limb.

The victim’s arm was, on November 22 at 6am, found wrapped in her bra and thrown on the roof of a house in the neighbourhood.

Dr Martin Mbati of Bungoma West Hospital told K24 Digital that it would be impossible to reattach the patient’s arm.