A Standard 8 (JSS 2) student of Lanet area in Nakuru County in Kenya was lynched after he was caught stealing hens.
The teenage boy who was expected to sit his KCPE exams this year was caught stealing the chicken at a neighbour’s poultry farm. Locals who spoke to the media said that the boy was a truant and disturbed their peace all the time. He could harvest their crops from the farm and threw dirt in a well which served a huge population.
He had sneaked into the neighbour’s farm and stole the hens only to be caught by irate locals who landed on him with stones. They beat him up with all manner of weapons and lynched him.
The area chief who confirmed the incident condemned the act terming it as barbaric. He urged locals to always hand crime suspects to police instead of taking away their lives.
The body was taken to Nakuru Municipal Mortuary for postmortem .