Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has joined efforts to help the woman who lost her eyesight after a hyena attack restore her eyesight.
The victim, Irene Mbithe, has been surviving with one eye ever since she was attacked by a hyena six years ago.
Speaking during an interview at Citizen TV, Mbithe said that she had gone to visit her aunt and planned to return to Machakos after the visit, but instead, she ended up at Tsavo National Park.
The horrifying incident began on July 29, when the victim went to City Cabanas to board a matatu to Machakos but, unfortunately, arrived late and missed the vehicle.
She therefore begged a driver whose truck was parked by the road for a lift as she was determined to reach home.
The man agreed to drop her off at the Machakos junction, where everything was smooth until they arrived at Mlolongo, where the driver asked her to pass him a bottle of water that was next to her seat and that was the last thing she remembered.
She was astonished to wake up in Mombasa, and when she confronted the driver, he refused to tell her why he had driven her there and refused to give her money for the fare back to Machakos.
However, Mbithe was desperate to get back home, so she went to a truck yard and began begging for a ride back and was lucky to find one as even one of the men spoke her local dialect.
They started their journey around 5 pm, but later on, the man began asking for sexual favors.
“The driver set the truck to self-drive and turned back to me. He then pulled his trousers down to his knees and began touching me. I rejected the offer, and that’s when he ordered me to get out of the vehicle,” she said.
That is when Mbithe got attacked by a hyena.
Touched by the story which had been aired by popular Citizen TV, Sonko has now stepped in and paid for her three months’ rent and promised to facilitate her eye treatment, including an eye transplant.
