SHOCKING: Inmate Cuts off His Manh00d After Failing To Get Presidential Pardon

Doctors at Kenyatta National Hospital cannot ‘mend’ the organ of a Kamiti prisoner who shredded it over frustration of not being freed.

Doctors said Francis Karuri – on death row for violent robbery – arrived at the hospital too late for them to perform an operation to save his organ.

Karuri was rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital 13 hours after the incident. 

He chopped off his manhood at Kamiti Maximum Prison for missing the ‘gift of life’ on Kenya’s Golden Jubilee.

According to prison authorities, he cut it off because apparently, he was not included in the list of inmates to be pardoned by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

50 prisoners won Uhuru’s clemency on Jamhuri Day, the day Kenya marked 50 years of Uhuru. The President has constitutional powers to pardon criminals.

Friends at the prison said Karuri had been hopeful of reuniting with his family after his supposed release by the President during the Kenya at 50 celebrations.

He had been following the proceedings on prison radio and TV, and was disappointed after his name failed to appear on the clemency list. 

Be able to sire children

After castrating himself, the man continued to mop the floor of his cell while bleeding. He was found at the prison corridors after he collapsed due to loss of blood, according to sources. 

He told other inmates that since he had not been released, he did not see the need of having his manhood, as he would never be able to sire children.

Prison officials said Karuri had been depressed for a while, and had been referred to the mental division.

It is a state tradition for presidents to pardon criminals during national days. 

4,000 convicts

Karuri who had been sentenced to hang has already served 15 years. The last time a criminal was hanged in Kenya was in the 1980s.

Judging by presidential decisions in the past, Karuri’s sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment.

Former President Kibaki surprised many in 2009 when he commuted the sentences of 4,000 convicts to life imprisonment.

Karuri was still recuperating at Kenyatta National Hospital at the time of going to press guarded by warders who did not allow journalists to see him.

Human rights organisations have lobbied for the abolition of capital punishment in Kenya for years.

- standardmedia.co.ke

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