A truck driver Age 38yrs.
A mission supervised by the manager at his premises led to brutally
injure Mr. Isaac Njoroge. He said he was
beaten and part of his body burnt.
Isaac Njoroge, 38-year-old
truck driver who was burnt using a highly inflammable substance on his
right shoulder by his former employers after the goods he was transporting from
Mombasa to Nairobi got lost.
Mr njoroge was accused of stealing cargo — aluminium coils
worth millions of shillings — and has been charged with the offence.
The case was reported at Mariakani police station.
Mariakani OCPD Patrick Ngeiwa said police were still
investigating the incident with some witnesses having recorded statements. “We
expect that this week a key witness will also record a statement after which we
will arrest the culprits and charge them in court,”
After the incident, during which he suffered serious burns on his back, Mr
Njoroge said he was not taken to hospital but to a police station. The police, however, ordered the managers to first have him treated.
And Monday, the driver narrated his narrow escape from the tongues of fire that would have consumed him were it not for the quick action of some of the workers at the company.
After the theft, he secured another job, he said. “It was on January 27 when I was on my way to pick up a truck belonging to my new employer when a truck pulled up beside me.
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