Three witnesses on Friday testified before a Kisumu court during an inquest seeking to unearth the killers of Baby Samantha Pendo.
Baby Pendo died last year after allegedly being clobbered on the head by security officers who were deployed to quell riots that erupted in Kisumu after the August 8 elections.
One of the witnesses, Thomas Abanja told the court that he provided the bicycle which was used as an ambulance to rush baby Pendo to hospital.
Abanja, who is the brother to Joseph Abanja (Pendo’s father) explained that all their pleas to security officers to provide them with means to rush the clobbered Pendo to hospital were turned away.
Abanja noted that before Baby Pendo was admitted to Aga Khan hospital, they visited three hospitals in the company of Samantha’s mother and a neighbor but found no help.
He also brought forth that her admission into the health facility cost him sh18,000.
Before that ill-fated night, Abanja says that Pendo’s father wanted to bring his children to his house citing that it was safer and far away from the road where protesters were engaging police in running battles.
“After some little calm returned my brother (Pendo’s father) decided not to bring the children. The calm however did not last long and hell broke again,” said Abanja.
John Otieno who also testified, told Resident Magistrate Beryl Omollo that cruel security officers broke into his house where they beat him up with hefty clubs.
Otieno stated that the officers went ahead and descended on his motorbike and smashed it after they saw a picture of ODM leaders on it.
"They also broke the grill to my gas cooker and also shattered my thermos flask before they ordered me to sleep,” narrated Otieno.
After unleashing horror on him, Otieno said the officers went to the house where baby Pendo was with her family where they lobbed teargas to flush them out.
“Once they were out, the officers clobbered them with no mercy despite Samantha’s mother pleading with them that she was holding a six months old baby and scantily dressed,” stated Otieno.
The inquest will continue on the 16th of April this year.