Cartoonist Kibet Bull Released As Women Demonstrate And Fred Odumo Sends Back-to-school Message

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Silhouette cartoonist Gideon Kibet also known as Kibet Bull has allegedly been released.

Kibet Bull (left) with Busia Senator Okiya Okoiti Omtatah just minutes before unknown abductors pounced on him. Photo | X

The cartoonist confirmed his release on his X account on Monday, January 6, 2025. He said he had been dropped off in Luanda, Vihiga County at dawn between 3:00 am and 4:00 am but was unable to secure transportation back to the city until 6:00 am.

Kibet claims to have spent the interim time at a burial vigil dance, locally known as “disco matanga”.

Unlike other abductees freed on Monday, the cartoonist sounded coherent and not disoriented.

“They dropped me [off] in Luanda Vihiga at 3-4 am, leo. Sikuwa najua where to enter or book a room. Kidogo form ya Disco Matanga came in and danced mpaka 6 am when I went to book a ticket.”

Ironically by the time we posted this article (two hours after the tweet) the family of the cartoonist claims they’ve neither seen him nor has he gotten in touch.

Reports further indicate that Billy Wanyiri Mwangi, Peter Muteti, and Rony Kiplagat who were dropped off by unknown persons at different localities across the county were fazed and disoriented. Unverified reports also claim they were tortured.

It is not yet clear who the captors of the abducted youth were but reports on mainstream media indicated that Gideon Kibet was apprehended by suspicious looking characters driving a Subaru Forester mounted with communication equipment, shortly after holding talks with Busia Senator Okiya Okoiti Omtatah. That was on Christmas day and efforts to trace the whereabouts of the now popular cartoonist bore no fruits.

Claims of his release, alive, on Monday must have been a great relief to friends and family. However, the uncertainty surrounding the lose of the cartoonist might be adding to their pain.

In other news, women marched through Kimathi street of Nairobi central business district during a highly tense demonstration procession held for the government to stop arbitrary and illegal abductions.

Watched keenly by anti-riot police the women brazenly sang anti-government songs as well as The National Anthem.

The release,alive, of abducted victims has sparked heated discussion on X spaces with some taking a stand that a few demonic individuals and not the government was responsible.

Women marching through the streets of Nairobi. Photo | NMG

Both the State House spokesperson and the Inspector Gen of police have adamantly denied that the National Police Service was involved in neither extrajudicial lynching nor abductions.

Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has made claims that the notoriety visited upon anti-government supporters is by an individual empowered by state.

Meanwhile, in Kisumu, senatorial aspirant Fred Odumo Nying’uro has promised to go an extra mile to see that all students return to school. Speaking during the countrywide opening of schools on Monday 6, January 2025, Wakili Fred Odumo Nying’uro said that it’s possible through proper planning to have all students report back to class without experiencing a fallout owing to lack of fees.