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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

"I was assaulted by Kenyan avocado farm guard" - Yahoo News

Two women who say they were assaulted by security guards at Kenya's Kakuzi farm have spoken about what they say happened to them.

Their claims come as the agri-business seeks to sue Kenyan human rights groups over what it says are false allegations of abuse.

Critics say the Kakuzi lawsuit is aimed at winning back contracts recently lost in a UK supermarket boycott.

The company told the BBC it doesn't tolerate wrongdoers.

Mudhikwa Musau, 88, lives in a village just a few minutes' walk from the tree-lined perimeter of Kakuzi's vast farmland in central Kenya.

In 2009 she was assaulted by one of the firm's security guards. Speaking in the local language of Kamba, she demonstrates how the assault was carried out.

"I was caught like that and he was catching me here like this. I was taken round. He stood up and stepped on me. He stepped on my neck. He held my neck and turned it around. He covered my mouth while I screamed."

Mudhikwa Musau says she went to the police after making her complaint, but she never heard about the case again.

Kakuzi says one of their employees was convicted of the assault, but he was acquitted of a rape allegation made by Ms Musau. They say the case had nothing to do with his employment at the firm because the two were known to each other.

Sixty-five-year-old Marium Wanja has also spoken about what she says she endured. She says she bore two children to Kakuzi security guards in the 1990s.

"I was raped by Kakuzi security guards and it cost me my...



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