A truck driver is lucky to have survived after escaping an armed robbery along the busy Nakuru-Nairobi highway.
Remson Mwaura was driving a white Isuzu FRR from the potato-rich highlands of Molo to Kajiado at 3 a.m. when he was accosted by three highway thugs in a Toyota probox near Kamandura.
The vehicle being driven dangerously from one end of the road to the other abruptly blocked the lorry, forcing the driver to come to a halt.
Two men who were precariously clinging to the vehicle’s doors leaped onto the tarmac and run straight towards the lorry cabin.
Mwaura leaped from the cabin, both kicks aimed at two of the miscreants, who sprawled on the tarmac like terrified rats.Before the third could process what had happened, he was hit with a powerful blow that catapulted him several metres beneath the lorry’s belly.
Mwaura then took off for the Rubis petrol station, which is 100 meters from the scene of the incident, but not before one of the thugs retaliated by stabbing him on his right leg near the knee.
All Mwaura could hear them say as he ran for his life was ‘Kari Kiguruki!’ (Have we come across a lunatic?
He encountered a guard at the gas station who assisted him in contacting detectives based at DCI Tigoni, and after receiving brief details about the lorry, the detectives swung into action.
The detectives intercepted the lorry at Murengeti and flagged it down moments later.
However, the thugs did not stop and disembarked from the moving lorry, causing it to crash into a ditch.
As the detectives ran to avoid being run over by the beast, they opened fire on the fleeing thugs and apprehended one of them, Alexander Mwaniki, 30.
The rest escaped the onslaught into the darkness, but with severely perforated hindquarters.
The arrested suspect is currently being processed for arraignment on charges of robbery with violence.
The lorry was towed to Tigoni police station while its driver sought treatment at Tigoni hospital.
Detectives are looking for the remaining two suspects who escaped with gunshot wounds.
