A man stabbed with a knife is in coma in Kakuma mission hospital;
An assailant stabbed a gentleman yesterday at one o’clock at Franco Hotel in Kakuma Refugee Camp. This assailant was drinking sprite inspecting the coming of the people to the hotel.
When Deng entered and proceeded to the hands-washing corner, he followed him. He then started to stab him with a knife. To the surprise of the rest of customers in the hotel, noise had risen.
The first man who rose to the scene saw the fight but feared separating them for this assailant was using a knife. The hotel manager ran then to the scene, pulled the assailant out and Deng too who was in pain. This old man didn’t hesitate thus escaped. Deng came after him bleeding profusely.
“Don’t let that person go guys, catch him,” he shouted for help.
The rest of the people followed yet this old assailant scared them with the knife. On the road, people massed following him. It was there when the police took hold of him and took him to the police station.
Deng who got weaker was carried in a wheelbarrow onto the road where an ambulance picked him up. He was rushed to the IRC main hospital in a coma for first aid, then transferred to Kakuma mission hospital for further management.
While I paid him a visit in Kakuma mission hospital that afternoon, he was able to speak unlike the previous night. His relatives who slept with him said his situation had improved. “I was afraid of his situation Yesterday,” Doctor Josiah said. “He’s able to sit and speak now.” The doctor’s medical report stated that the wounds of the lower jaw, rib and axilla were two centimeters deep.
Dr. Josiah said he could not perform a chest X-ray and DNA test. He said these including tubular replacement should be done in another hospital with all the necessities for the patient. “If this tubular replacement is done, he will be well like everybody else,” said Dr. Josiah.
The patient was unable to eat any solid food. His relatives had been giving him yoghurt. The doctor and the nurse advised they give him fresh milk instead of yoghurt. The IOM official assured the patient that tomorrow morning he would be flown to Nairobi in a safe plane for better treatment and safe environment. Deng should be accompanied by two of his relatives.
Cause of the conflict;
This conflict is said to have begun in 2008. The oldman’s wife delivered a son. This son grew up that the old man who became an assailant accused Deng of being the father. The accusation clearly stated that he committed an adultery by sleeping with the oldman’s wife. The oldman’s evidence were the shape of the boy’s head and his walking style which he said not being his but Deng’s. By then Deng was known in his entire group, as a student who was committed to studies. He could hardly sleep at home but in the hospital.
The solution reached by elders and the leaders of the group was to let Deng and the boy go to Nairobi for a DNA test. His studies could not let him go. This old man was advised to go back to Sudan. It was since then that he developed grudges.
In the morning of his day of assault, he deceived people in the group that he would travel to Sudan but instead made his way to Franco hotel. He is now in Kenya police station waiting to be taken to Lodwar for further trials.