Bandits shoot boda boda operator in Samburu

Residents of Lolmolog area in Samburu Central are living in fear after armed bandits shot a boda boda rider who was carrying a passenger.

The rider was left with a thigh injury.The rider, Peter Mureithi, was shot on Wednesday evening and rushed to Maralal Referral Hospital.

Mureithi told The Standard from the hospital yesterday that he was shot by the bandits after he refused to stop when one of them waved him. He said he was carrying one of his regular customers from Longewan market when the incident occured.