Two people are fighting for their lives at Yala Subcounty Hospital, in Siaya, after they were injured in a violent confrontation in Gem.
This comes after irate villagers turned against them for allegedly trying to disrupt the Orange Democratic Movement party grassroots elections in the Gem constituency.
The mid-morning incident occurred at Muhanda primary school in Gem Yala Subcounty where the two were beaten and left to die before good Samaritans took them to the hospital.
It began when agitated villagers spotted strangers in vehicles hovering around Muhanda Primary School which is situated along the Kisumu- Busia highway and on challenging them to identify themselves, they allegedly refused.
Addressing the media, Gem constituency ODM chairman Nick Ochola condemned the incident and blamed a politician for being behind the incident.
Ochola said the politician is on record on social media platforms boasting that only his henchmen would be elected or no elections would be done in the constituency.
Parents of one of the victims of mob justice, Kennedy Oduor, who spoke to the media outside the Yala Subcounty Hospital condemned the incident and demanded that the politician foot the treatment bill.
They said their only son had left home at Tieng’re village in Kisumu to go to work only for them to learn he was badly injured in Gem.
Gem Subcounty Police Commander Charles Wafula confirmed the incident, saying the two were rescued by the police.
Meanwhile, the grassroots election went on smoothly in other parts of the Gem constituency.
