Mr. Ben Nyaumbe once made headlines after he was attacked by a python on a farm where he worked as a manager.
Nyaumbe was dragged him up a tree by a giant python at Sabaki Farm in Malindi District in Kenya's Coast province.
“I was preparing ugali at 7pm, close to the stable. I stood to pick a packet of flour when the water started boiling.
“As I stood up, I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly, my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python.The struggle was mammoth.
“The python, apparently hunting for goats, attempted to bind both my legs. But I struggled hard,” he said as quoted by Nation.
The giant reptile then jumped onto his left arm and coiled itself round it.
“It waggled its ragged and scary tail on my mouth. I had to bite it as I struggled, one hand incapacitated,” he said.
“The snake then got it easy and quickly dragged me on. Systematically, it pulled me up a tree and surprisingly enough, it rested when it reached there,” he said while pointing to broken branches on the tree where he said they “rested.”
“This gave me the opportunity to remove my phone from my pocket. I had not been able to do so all the time I struggled”.
It was 8.30pm. Mr Nyaumbe called his boss who rushed in a matter of minutes with two police officers.
However, the snake was hissing so loudly that the officers stayed off. The officers were unable to shoot the snake because it could put Mr. Nyaumbe’s life at risk.
Nyaumbe managed to tear part of his shirt and covered the python’s head to enable him tie a rope round its neck.
“Finally we both came down, landing with a thud. The other officer came running and helped his colleague put the python in three sacks, hurled it onto a pick up and drove it to Falconry of Kenya, a birds and snake sanctuary in Malindi, 20 kilometres away."
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