A well-known TikToker abducted on Tuesday in Mombasa’s central business district during daylight, has come out to describe the terrifying three days he spent in captivity.
Geoffrey Chesoni explained that seven men with guns dragged him from the street and took him to a forest in Voi. There, they beat him and kept threatening to kill him. He suspects the men were government security officers, though they never revealed who they were.
After days filled with threats and beatings, Chesoni said the men moved him to the Mombasa State House. They released him after that but warned him to appear at the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) next Monday.
Chesoni says he now lives in fear after surviving a terrifying kidnapping that left him both physically hurt and shaken.
CCTV cameras captured the abduction in the heart of Mombasa showing a Subaru car with the plate number KDC 126E. Witnesses say one of the men fired a shot into the air to scare people away before forcing Chesoni into the car and driving off.
He shared details of the horrific three-day ordeal he endured claiming that the men holding him may have been security officials.
“They tied my hands with handcuffs and beat me. I’m still hurting,” he shared with Citizen TV.
He explained how they took him to a secluded forest in Voi and assaulted him again and again. Seven men asked him to explain who supported him and what he wanted.
“Ni nani anayefadhili hizi vitu? Unajua Ojwang aliuwawa wewe,” one of them reportedly said.
(Translation: Who is funding these things? You know Ojwang was killed?)
Chesoni revealed that the seven armed men who took him seemed to follow someone else’s orders. They were talking to someone on the phone a lot reporting what was happening at every step of his captivity. During the ordeal, they took his phone, which he had dropped while being abducted.
Chesoni says they questioned him for hours in a forest close to Voi before taking him back to Mombasa. He claims they brought him to State House where the abuse got worse.
“Hapa ndio Ikulu sasa. Sema ulikuwa unataka kwenda.”
“This is now State House. Say you wanted to come here,” one of them told him.
He received medical care after the mistreatment, but they warned him to stay silent about everything that had taken place.
Chesoni says he is terrified but has decided to speak up. Authorities told him to visit the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) on Monday to share more details.
