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By Alfred Maina
A 51-year-old man from Kamahuha Village in Maragua, Murang’a County was shocked Thursday, when he woke up and found his penis had been severed from his body.
The man told K24 Digital that he had spent Wednesday night drinking alcohol with his friends.
After binging from 8pm Wednesday to 2am Thursday, the victim said he followed his male friend, Gerald Mbugua, to his home.
“Throughout the journey, he [Gerald] kept on telling me that he would circumcise me for a second time. I treated his threat as a bad joke, blaming his statement on the excess alcohol that we had taken,” the victim told K24 Digital.
The man says he woke up at daybreak on Thursday, and went to the toilet for a short call only to find his penis had been cut off.
The victim called his friends on phone, who arrived and took him to Murang’a Level 5 Hospital with the help of Kamahuha MCA.
The suspect, Mbugua, had gone into hiding at the time.
Efforts to find the severed penis were fruitless.
Police later tracked Mbugua down to his hideout in Kamahuha, and arrested him.
Residents blame the incident on drug and substance abuse among men in the area.
