Kiminini residents touched down a campaign vehicle belonging to current area MP Chris Wamalwa on Wednesday.
This comes after the vehicle was involved in an accident that killed a woman and severely injured a man.
Kiminini sub-county police commander John Onditi confirmed the accident, which occurred around 7:30 p.m.
He stated that the vehicle was moving at a high speed from Kiminini to Kitale when it hit a woman who was roasting maize on the roadside.
She passed away on the spot. Her child, who was with her, was injured and taken to Kiminini Cottage Hospital.
According to Onditi, the vehicle belonged to the campaign team of MP Wamalwa.
“It is true that the vehicle hit and killed a woman who was roasting maize on the roadside and also injured her child leading to its being torched by members of the public,” he told the Star.
MP Wamalwa, who is running for governor of Trans Nzoia, confirmed that the vehicle involved in the accident belonged to him.
He expressed his condolences to the family and requested that the investigation be completed as soon as possible.
“My condolences to the family and friends of the late Florence Apondi, who died following a grisly road accident, involving one of my campaign vehicles,” he said in a statement on Facebook.
In protest of the tragic incident, angry residents barricaded the busy Kiminini-Kitale highway and lit bonfires.
Efforts by police officers from the Kiminini police station to rescue the vehicle were futile because they were outnumbered.
According to an eyewitness, four occupants of the Nissan vehicle managed to flee the scene.
The driver of the vehicle was seriously injured and was rescued by police, who rushed him to the hospital before the vehicle was set on fire.
According to the boss, the driver suffered a fracture in both legs and was taken to the hospital.
The deceased’s body was taken to the Kitale County referral mortuary for an autopsy.
“It is never good to take law into your own hands, allow investigative agencies to do investigations,” he said.
