According to Standard Media, quick action by police officers in Bungoma town in Kenya averted an ugly scene after angry residents attempted to burn down a clinic located along the Kakamega-Bungoma road following the death of a year seven pupil suspected to have received an abortion at the facility.
A crowd surrounded the Joe Medical Clinic immediately word began to spread that a pupil from Lubunda Primary School had succumbed to complications after Dr. Joseph Owola allegedly attempted an abortion. They were in the process of dousing the facility with petrol when anti-riot police officers arrived and rescued the terrified medical practitioner residents accused of being behind several such abortions.
Police took the girl’s body to Bungoma County Hospital mortuary as the doctor was also arrested and locked up at the Bungoma Police Station.
“We have arrested the doctor and now we will take him to court. Wananchi [citizens] should be patient,” said Bungoma County Police Commandant Charles Munyoli.
