Violet Auma assaulted while covering a confrontation between locals and police

Violet Auma and her colleagues from different media houses were covering local protests in Isulu, Ikolomani in Kakamega county where locals had been told to vacate their homes in order to give way for gold mining. It is a story she has been doing for a while and on their way to cover a school fire that occurred because of protests. They were stopped by youths who insisted that they wanted to be interviewed. After setting up, they were attacked by goons bearing machetes and clubs. Their equipment was destroyed, some were stolen and her male counterparts were physically assaulted. Violet Auma was harassed as they tried to steal her bag which had mics, her phone and laptop. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CzvfXYTKp/ https://x.com/AMWIK/status/1997182515040436371?t=jIs29SxUtcT81hWOyScfbA&s=19