Victims have come out to speak on how Kenya Navy soldiers allegedly unleashed wrath on them after President Uhuru Kenyatta visited the area to mark Mashujaa Day celebrations on Sunday, October 20.
Residents claimed that young KDF soldiers went beserk and manhandled them, forcing them to undertake heinous acts.
The soldiers allegedly forced residents to sit in mud puddles and one Mwangole Chikore claimed that he was forced to swim inside filthy sewage for about 10 minutes.
“This is needless terror. Anyway, I blame myself for trying to attend the Mashujaa celebrations. If I had stayed at home, I could not have been forced to drink from a sewer,” he said.
Moses Juma on his side narrated how the security forces ashamed him in front of his wife while they were crossing the Indian Ocean to attend Kenyatta’s event.
Jumwa was ordered to strip naked as the soldiers who were on patrol descended heavily on him as his girlfriend watched helplessly and in tears.
“They rained slaps on me while hitting me with gun butts. They later forced me and my girlfriend to sit on a sewer,”Juma lamented.
Many residents in various areas, including Senti Kumi, Majengo Mapya and Dudus areas of Likoni remained indoors for fear of the masked soldiers.
Security was uptight in the coast, with soldiers barricading all empty open spaces within Mombasa Island, and kept key areas such as Mombasa’s Old Town under lock and key.
