A video has emerged of a section of Mombasa residents who were recorded blocking an ambulance from taking a woman to quarantine.
The video shared by Daily Nation that surfaced online on Tuesday, May 5, showed the woman who was seated inside being prepared for travel while youth disrupted the exercise.
The three gentlemen are heard threatening to beat up the medics over the exercise.
"Do not take this woman away. I swear, don't take her. Do you guys want us to show you what we are capable of?
"You guys do not have any use and even the government," claimed the youth while accusing the state of lavishly spending money.
The medics are seen in the video trying to talk to the rowdy youth while properly covered with personal protective equipment. (PPE).
This comes just days after Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho sounded a warning to Mombasa residents that his government would heighten safety measures to ensure the people complied with measures put in place to curb the spread of Covid-19.
There was an increase in opposition to forced quarantine after a section of Kenyans claimed that the conditions at the facilities were unbearable.
So dire was the situation that in some centres like Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC), a number of people boldly jumped over the fences to escape.
It was disclosed that people who were held up in quarantine facilities were expected to fork out Ksh 2,000 per day for their own bills for the entire period they would be held up at the facilities.
Mombasa County had earlier rolled out mass testing in an attempt to separate the infected residents who would then be taken to quarantine for monitoring.
"We have already buried six people from Old Town and yet you have time to argue? What is wrong with you? Use your common sense, stop joking with lives.
"We have come to say it today and we will not repeat. You will be tested. Take it from me, you know I don't mince my words, you will be tested. If you refuse, then we will have to lock you in your houses, so that if you are positive, you infect yourselves in there. Let us not play games with this," Joho stated on Saturday, May 2.
The people, however, defied the self-proclaimed Sultan citing fear of the testing process.
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