Egerton University lecturer Alfred Wanyama was rescued by boda boda riders on Thursday afternoon after he was attacked by four robbers along the Nakuru-Narok road. Wanyama, who is in the department of literature and linguistics, had left a bank and was on his way to his office when he was accosted shortly after alighting from a matatu. According to the lecturer’s nephew Edward Wafula, a boda boda operator who witnessed the incident, Wanyama was forced him into a Toyota car moments after alighting from a matatu at the university’s main gate. He said the lecturer had visited a bank in Nakuru and could have been trailed by the crooks. Wafula added that a section of motorbike operators who are familiar with the talkative lecturer pursued the robbers’ car after realising the don was in danger. He said the robbers were cornered by the over 10 motorbike chasers before escaping on foot into the Mau Forest after abandoning the car. The lecturer was unhurt but he lost Sh15,000 in cash and a mobile phone worth Sh20,000 to the crooks. “My uncle is a very social man and that is why my colleagues acted very quickly to rescue him. The robbers must have been trailing the matatu in which he was travelling from Nakuru after he came from the bank,” said Wafula. The abandoned car was towed away by police officers from Njoro police station who were called in while the lecturer was admitted at the university dispensary after suffering from shock. Njoro police boss Charles Owino said police had launched investigations into the robbery.

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