A love affair in a Naivasha village turned sour after a quarry worker splashed acid on his girlfriend leaving her partially blind.
The jilted lover doused the woman - a bar waiter - with the liquid after he found her speaking to another man in Maguna center located on Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
Members of the public set on him with all manner of weapons following the act; the woman was rushed to hospital.
James Karani, a witness, said that the woman was speaking to a customer at her workplace.
“This angered him and he left the bar briefly and returned with a plastic can and splashed the woman with the acid on the face,” he said.
The waiter would be rescued by the public who helped cleaned her face with water.
The suspect was rescued from the mob by Naivasha police who later locked him up at the station.
Meanwhile, police in Naivasha have accused some truck drivers of colluding with thugs following a series of highway robberies in the area.
This came as a driver of a trailer was arrested on suspicion of selling wheat worth millions of shillings while on transit on the Naivasha-Mai Mahiu highway.
The robbery occurred near Longonot trading center after the driver was allegedly blocked by a white car and the lorry carrying the 28 tonnes of wheat driven away.
A source said that the driver was dumped a few meters from the scene of crime.
“The lorry was found dumped near Gilgil town on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway with half of the cargo offloaded,” a source said.
The source added that the driver was giving contradicting stories over the robbery adding that he could have participated in the incident.
The officer in charge of the flying squad unit in Naivasha Singi Nzioka said the driver had been arrested.
Singi said they suspect the drivers either sell goods on transit or collaborate with thugs sprawling the area.
“We have come to establish that some of the drivers later claim that they were attacked yet they collude with the thugs,” he said.