Boda boda operators in Narok town yesterday forced a 35-year-old driver to undergo circumcision.
The more than 50 operators picked the driver at his place of work and tried to take him to the Narok County Referral Hospital using a handcart but police intervened. The man was forced to march round the town streets naked. He was taken to Narok river, where they dipped him in readiness to ‘face the knife’.
Some Sh10,000 was raised to help him undergo the initiation. Police had to lob teargas to disperse residents and rescue him. They took him to the police station. The man took himself to the hospital for circumcision to avoid further humiliation.
Narok North police boss Joseph Kisombe said they saved man from the angry operators. The boda boda operators said they were angered by the man for staying long before going for the “mandatory cut”. “The news was leaked by a girlfriend and we had to force him go for the cut,” an operator said.
