The 11-year-old boy whose family in Lunyito Village in Lugari Location reported missing has been found safe and sound with a shocking narration of how he found himself at Bungoma Police Station, 45 km away from home.
Bravine Mwechelesi, a Grade Four pupil at Sirende Primary School, said he trekked all the way from Lugari to Bungoma after an unknown boy beat him while he was grazing his family’s goats on December 23, 2023, a few days before Christmas Day.
“I used to sleep on verandas on my way to Mumias until I arrived in Bungoma town and met a man who took me to Bungoma Police Station,” he recounted.
The little boy said police officers at the station interrogated him and then gave him fare to travel back home, to Mumias at his grandfather’s place on Friday evening.
“I boarded a matatu up to Ekero where I took a motorbike to Mumias to my grandfather’s home,” the boy said, adding that he wants to continue with school while there and not Lugari.
His sister, Leah Chevombe, had said the boy got lost while away herding goats which came back on their own in the evening.
“He was last seen wearing a short with green and red flowers, a t-shirt with white and black stripes, blue crocks and a jacket,” she said.
Sam Oduor is the editor-in-chief at the Western Kenya Times who leverages the power of the Internet in telling stories that shape opinions.
