Celebrities such as Eve DSouza and Kiss 100’s Adelle Onyango have been very open about their tragic sexual assault stories and have in the process helped in giving others a voice and have encouraged victims to speak up.
Adelle says she was raped by a stranger back in 2008 at West ands while Eve DSouza fell prey to a gang.Their ordeals have inspired a former TV presenter to also open up about her near-rape encounter.
This is what Elizabeth Irungu formerly of Youth TV wrote on Facebook:
RAPE IN KENYA! Sato i watched Adelle Onyango the popular radio personality talk about her rape experience on NTV’s show Discovery 254! She was raped once & sometime back i also read about Eve D’Souza’s unfortunate gang rape story that apparently she never openly talks about as she is not fully emotionally healed from the tragic ordeal & it gave me alot of courage to talk about my own attempted rape experience! Well i was not raped but it ALMOST happened to me too! It was such a scary experience that i can never forget as long as i live on earth!
The guy did not succeed coz i fought him hard & luckily it was chilly so i was wearing jeans & boots,it took him too long to take them off me but i always wonder to myself what if he had succeeded?! What if i was wearing say a dress?! Wouldn’t it have left a permanent scar on my soul! I really sympathise with victims of rape.Poleni and it is for that reason that today i have decided to courageously share my own story with the world!
It was 2012 i had gone to see my boyfriend at Ushirika estate past Jujaa rd estate Eastleigh.Around evening hours.Some dark skinned short chubby guy about my age approached me & was all smiles & friendly like,”mambo Sweetie.Hassan amesema nikushow umngojee kwa grao coz sai ako hapa ndani mosque & watu wakitoka swala itakuwa mezesha kwake kuonekana na wewe publicly vile hauna buibui coz of the sheikhs in there & his neighbors too”
So i thought since he knows my name & my guy hashiki simu zangu coz yuko swala then he must have sent him for real!

I innocently followed the guy into the football ground to wait for my Hassan on a bench there just behind that primary school.Wacha anipigeh sweep nidunde chini ya mti.Wacha aanze kuni strip top & strangling my neck.I couldn’t be heard screaming coz of the loud muadhin of the mosque! I couldn’t run coz he put me in a head lock! In short he was so immoral & daring not to mention shameless trying to rape me right behind the holy mosque where ppl were busy praying to God & kwanza in a very open playing ground.Hakuna mtu hapo coz ilikuwa evening & my screams were being drowned by the loud speaker muaadhin(call for prayers)!!! That’s how brutal a rapist can be! Hata haogopi mosque wala Mungu wala hana aibu! Haogopi chochote! Hana haya yoyote!
Wah wacha tu’nga ng’aneh with that monster of a boy,i was so scared screaming,biting,scratching him,he forcefully lay ontop of me with all his chubby weight na kitambi yake yote (YUCK!) sweating and kuhema all over me,he quickly took off his trouser & boxers & his ugly d*c & started forcefully pulling my trousers down.I refused with all my might & little strength that i had left.He started slapping me around continously akini nyonga.I started kicking in the air like a mad woman & feeling abit dizzy & chocked coz of vile alikuwa anani nyonga sana na mkono zake nono.Sauti yangu saa iyo imeiisha yote i can’t even scream anymore!
I was getting weaker & weaker.
I could smell blood on my face but at that moment i didn’t care kama nime-uumia or where exactly the blood was coming from.Sikuwa najali kama ni nose bleed ama ameni gwara uso ama nime gongwa kichwa.I just didn’t care,just wanted to fight that bastard off me!
I knew i was blacking out any minute now & would be unconcious any minute.I could feel my body was exhausted of fighting & was letting up & giving up on me but my mind was still fighting him hard so i prayed to Jesus not to let me faint coz ninge faint hapo,that bastard would easily rape me unconcious!
When my eyes started seeing split images & my head got too dizzy,i told Jesus to give me just 5 more minutes to fight,”I just need 5 more minutes of strength my dear God.Just 5 mins.I don’t want to black out here God.Please don’t allow me to black out now” with hot tears & blood streaming down my cheeks
Before the bastard could fully take down my trousers & pantie,some chokoras came from no where,saw us & started running towards us throwing stones at him.They started shouting “SHIKA HUYO! SHIKA HUYO” The fat coward got scared,got up left his trouser & started running away from them in his boxers.The chokoras started chasing him & throwing things at him.Somehow he managed to escape from them by climbing iyo wall ya chuo & jumping to side ya race course estate.
Then the chokosh boyz came with clean water from iyo car wash apo nyuma ya chuo & told me to wash the blood off my face,they covered my torn top with their jacket coz my boobs were all out & carried me to the mosque.They were like,”madam uko sawa? Aki pole madam” i was so shaken!
The head sheikh there heard the whole story from me & those chokosh boyz identified the bastard! Immediately sheikh made a loud speaker announcement at the mosque that vijana wote waiislamu watoke waendee race course estate kumsaka yule muhalifu aliyetoroka.Less than an hour later,the Muslim boys came back with the bastard naked on a mkokoteni.Then the ustaadhs ordered he face me & apologise infront of the whole crowd & that he be frog marched naked to Pangani Police station for all to see him.He was crying for mercy like a kid!!!
Those boys in Kanzu did not spare him either.They went singing,kicking him & spitting on him.My boyfriend did not even wanna see the bastard.I had never seen my boyfriend cry before! He was one of those tough macho guys so seeing him furious & eyes all red like that & tears surprised me alot!
I URGE ALL RAPE VICTIMS AND ATTEMPTED RAPE TO SPEAK UP.Those sheikhs counselled me & told me it is not something to be embarrased about coz it was not my fault at all.He was just a bad evil person who did not fear God.So speak up ladies! Usiogope kuenda ku-report mtu.Hakuna haya yoyote! JUST REPORT! TELL SOMEONE,parent,friend,pastor,sheikh,neighbor,ur bro,ur siz.DO NOT SUFFER ALONE! TALK!