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Gang kills police officer who rescued 6 girls from FGM

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December 12, 2023

Corporal Boma who was killed on December 11, 2023

Gang kills police officer who rescued 6 girls from FGM

More police officers were sent to villages in parts of Elgeyo Marakwet for a major operation to address rising cases of female genital mutilation.

The squad is also supposed to track and arrest a gang that Monday attacked and killed a police officer who was part of a team that had busted an FGM rite in Elgeyo Marawet County in an operation in Embobut forest.

Officials said the team is under instructions to get the killers and address the practice that is now rampant in the area despite it being banned.

Corporal Mushote Boma of Chesoi police station was killed and partially burnt in the attack.

His G3 rifle with 40 bullets is missing after being stolen by the attackers, police said.

His body was later picked up at a local mortuary pending autopsy.

The gang was protecting the circumcisers attending the banned rite in Embobut forest, police said.

Six girls who had already been circumcised were rescued and are recuperating at Iten County Referral Hospital.

County Police Commander Peter Mulinge said they are investigating the attack and an operation is ongoing in the area to get those behind the same and practice.

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He said police were on an FGM eradication within Embolot Location where they raided and rescued six girls who had been genitally mutilated and escorted them to Embobut Police Post.

An angry mob believed to be from Maron VTC Centre Marakwet East who were armed with stones and sticks stormed the police post where Boma was manning and stoned him on the head killing him.

According to police, they then partly burned his body using his mattress and escaped with a G3 Riffle with 40 rounds of ammunition.

The incident happened just a day after a Catholic priest was Saturday attacked after attempting to intervene and stop an FGM rite that was going on in Kamoi village where 15 girls are said to have been cut.

Mulinge said a confrontation ensued between the circumcisers’ protectors and the police rescue team that had been dispatched to Embobut forest to rescue tens of girls who were said to have been rounded up to undergo the banned rite.

Officials said female circumcision is going on behind closed doors this holiday season and under tight security of bandits who are ready to confront police.

The police rescue team from Chesoi police station and local General Service Unit personnel had rescued six girls and taken them to hospital before the gangs protecting the circumcisers pursued them to the police post.

“There was a rescue operation for girls who were undergoing FGM, and some of the girls had already been mutilated.”

‘There were many but six were rescued, but those who were conducting the rite were also protected by bandits and so they turned against the officers” Mulinge said.

The gang felt aggrieved and followed them to the police post and caught one of the officers unawares and they killed him within the police post, police said.

He said they didn’t know the exact number, but there were many girls there.

At the Chesoi rescue centre, there are at least 71 rescued girls according to the county police commandant who escaped the knife following their lucky rescue.

Although it is outlawed and criminalized under Kenyan lawyers, FGM is still prevalent in North Rift counties, especially in Elgeyo Marawet, West Pokot, and parts of Baringo, Migori and Bomet counties.

Mulinge declared that a major operation is ongoing in the region targeting the female genital mutilators and gangs protecting them.

“We cannot allow this to continue because this is outlawed. We are carrying out an operation to flush out the circumcisers and the bandits,” he said.

Gang kills police officer who rescued 6 girls from FGM

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According to a statement by Zainab Rabo, Senior Special Assistant on Media Affairs to Governor Umar Namadi, the event drew high-level dignitaries, including top politicians, first-class emirs, captains of industry, and prominent Islamic scholars from across the country.

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Police Launch Special Enforcement Team to Enforce Tinubu’s Ban on VIP Escorts

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Hundeyin confirmed that the team carried out compliance checks at major points, including the Lekki–Ikoyi Link Bridge, the Murtala Muhammed International Airport domestic terminal, and other strategic hotspots within the state.

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