A third video has emerged on the Wangari Maathai/Forest Road saga where a female Diplomat was assaulted and stripped by alleged boda boda operators after an accident.
The video, shared by a TikTok user, showed boda boda operators taunting the driver after an accident that left one of their colleagues with a fractured leg.
In the video, a police officer was captured trying to de-escalate the situation but his pleas with the boda boda riders fell on deaf ears. The riders were taunting the driver as she tried to engage them to an amicable resolution.
The officer was directing the diplomat to enter into her car and leave the scene that was turning chaotic but the boda boda operators had blocked her car door. Some of the riders are seen pushing and slapping the lady.
The boda boda operators refused to let the driver leave, demanding that she takes responsibility for the injured rider, whom a police report indicated had abruptly blocked the 32-year-old woman's vehicle causing her to ram into the motorcycle and injuring the rider.
The woman's vehicle was damaged in the accident. Traffic police officers patrolling the Wangari Maathai Road are already being probed for their alleged failure to mitigate before the situation escalated.
After the driver left the scene, boda boda riders went after her and brutally assaulted her, tearing apart her clothes and breaking the vehicle windows.
Eyewitness accounts claimed that one of the officers arrived at the scene a few minutes later but did little to rescue the woman.
The National Police Service (NPS) detectives leading the probe want to know whether the traffic officers avoided the situation entirely.
After the incident, the government operationalised a crackdown on the boda bodas with 32 riders being arrested and 12 motorcycles impounded in connection with the heinous act.
The arrested riders were presented before the court on Thursday, March 10, and the police were given 15 days to hold 16 of them as they conduct more investigations into the incident.
