Residents of Mai Mahiu in Naivasha are in shock after unknown men dragged a screaming man from their vehicle before shooting him dead.

The middle-aged man was shot twice at the back of the head during the incident near Satellite area along the Mai Mahiu-Naivasha road on Friday morning.

And as has been the norm in other cases of extra-judicial killings, the victim did not have any identification documents.

Area residents were left in fear following the incident noting that the assailants were professionals who were not perturbed by the incident.

One of the area residents Mike Ole Sankara said that a white car was driven into the vast farm in the wee hours and a group of four men alighted.

The shaken pastoralists said that he and his colleague watched from some bushes in horror as the men pushed one of the men who was screaming and wailing to the ground.

“After some few minutes were heard two gunshots and the man stopped screaming before the assailants entered their car and fled from the scene,” said Sankara.

A senior police officer confirmed the incident adding that the body had been collected and taken to the Naivasha sub-county hospital mortuary.

“This is outright murder and we are yet to establish the motive but we shall collect his fingerprints so that we can identify the body,” said the officer.

Meanwhile, for the umpteenth time transport along the Mai Mahiu-Limuru road was paralyzed for hours after a trailer broke down blocking the narrow road.

Tens of passengers heading to various parts of the country were stranded for over five hours before police moved in and contained the situation.

A senior police officer who declined to be named termed the road as a disaster in waiting noting that it had been neglected for years.

The officer added that since its construction, the road had not been expanded making it impossible for vehicles to maneuver through the sides in case there was a breakdown.

“It has become the norm for traffic jams on this section of the road every week some lasting for hours and it’s a matter of days before we get a major lock-down,” said the officer.

- The Star: Anthony Gitonga