The abducted Baringo politician Nelson Lotela has been found in Nakuru where the attackers dropped him at a farm in Rongai area.
On Monday, members of the public discovered the MCA and took him to Kabarak University Hospital where he is receiving treatment.
“He was brought in at around 8 am by good samaritans. They found him at a maize plantation near Rongai, he looked weak and complained of pain in the neck and looked fatigued. He has not had any meal or taken water but we are yet to establish if he has any tissue injuries,” explained a doctor at Kabarak University Health Center.
Speaking from his hospital bed, the Silale MCA stated that the attackers had earlier parked their car adjacent to his own vehicle.
All along, he assumed the nearby car could be one owned by a random contractor in the town where he had spent most of his Sunday afternoon. While he was driving away, the hijackers followed him at close range.
Lotela narrated the attackers drove past him before blocking him and forcing his driver to stop the car. It is at this point that four armed men emerged from the car and attacked him.
“I tried to resist them but one of them hit me on the head with a gun. I lay down, they proceeded to blindfold me and put me into their car and immediately drove away,” he recalled.
He revealed that the attackers asked him whether he was a spokesperson for the Pokot community before accusing him of ‘blocking an operation’.
He added the abductors drove him into a forest and informed him that they were “doing what they were told to do.”
“I asked them why they wanted to kill me. They left me in the vehicle for some minutes and when they came back, one of them asked me to say my last prayer. He kept silent for some time and I tried to talk to him but he declined, saying he was not in a position to speak to me,” the MCA noted.
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He remembered that at some point, the four dragged him into a ditch, and drove off from the scene, leaving him bare feet.
Lotela's wife further accused the men who abducted her husband of threatening her.
Lotela’s wife revealed that some officers drove to her home intending to pick her up to Mogotio DCIO offices. She claims the officers asked her to board a car she only identifies as a KCA 212P and wanted her to accompany them to the Mogotio DCI officers. She declined to board the car which she says was the one used to abduct Lotela.
“Today morning I was told he had been found in Mobea. I also saw the same reports on social media. I had tried to check the officers' car to ensure that he was not there.I could not board it because it was not a government vehicle,” said Lotela’s wife in an interview at the hospital.
