It was on 23 December  2007,when Kenya was holding its elections that had stiff competition as the two major candidates  had a great appeal from the public.

Initially, we had several groups of young people in our  area, who always collected money from the shops that were being operated around that area, claiming that it was payment for security they were providing. Little did we know that the money we were paying would in return be used to harm us.

Before the results of the heavily contested election were announced, the  security group turned out to be a major security threat. They started doing mysterious things that frightened most of us. They started beating up people with no apparent reason, stripping women naked especially those  who wore trousers. This was injustice being done on broad daylight. 

Immediately the results were announced,almost all shops were closed down yet it was only 2:30pm. Our house was two metres away from the main road, so we could hear almost everything that was happening.

Suddenly, the noise started drawing closerand closer. Without further ado, we ran to the next vacant room that was located within our plot so that we could  have a quick view of what was happening. They were christians who had come from the church, unfortunately, when they were on their way home, the outlawed group struck of them and as they were trying to scamper for safety, one of them was not lucky.

The old man was unable to keep up with the pace and he ended up being cut on the forehead with a machete.He started bleeding profuselyand we saw the gang lick his blood and left him lying helplessly for the dead.The man lay silent in a pool of blood and we thought that he had already kicked ooff the bucket of life. After a few seconds, he started moving his hand trying to ask for help. By the grace of God he managed to get upand tried walking whiile at the same time staggering. He could hardly see where he was heading to. 

Hardly had he made several steps, than another gang emmerged from behind. When one of them raised a machete ready to attack him, he looked at him surprisingly and said,”Aren’t  my neighbour and you want to kill me?” The boy ignored the old man pleas and hacked him again, this time, it was meant to finish him for good, they went him lying dead silent and went away.

Immediately, the boy came walking towards our plot and lifted up a rock and went back where the old man was lying dead. He smashed his head into pieces and left smiling with no regrets at all.

The old man’s body remained lying on a pool of blood for almost eleven hours, by the time the policemen were coming to collect it, it had already started to decompose. This incident shocked me and I could hardly sleep, not even feel comfortable to move out of the plot alone.

Even though we survived the incident,it was a painful incident seeing how the innocent old man was hacked to death for no reason .