Tuesday night, a middle-aged guy who had apparently escaped arrest drowned in Kambala village in Kericho County after falling into a river.
The man tried to steal his mother’s cow in order to sell it for his own purposes, according to the police.
When his siblings saw the family cow was missing from the shed, they set out to get it right away.
After a while, they learned that the man had driven the cow in a certain direction. They tracked him down right away, forcing him to give the cow back to its rightful owner.
When the assistant chief of the area and the assistant county commissioner happened to walk by when they were returning the cow, they noticed the man being frog-matched and stopped to find out more.
The man thought the assistant chief and the assistant county commissioner were going to arrest him when he saw that they had stopped. He immediately ran to the swollen river and tried to swim to the other side in an attempt to escape, but the waters overtook him and carried him away.
The chief was injured when the enraged locals turned on him and attacked him, accusing him of being the cause of the man’s drowning.
The deceased person’s body is still being sought after.
