Kenya's Worst Bullying Cases: The Day Students Tied their Schoolmate to a Railway Track

It's the 1990s, and during this period, bullying in schools is a serious issue.

The first name you get when you join Form One is "mono."

And the things you'll go through will be etched in your mind forever.

Some forms of bullying are minor and even funny.

For example, a Form Four student will approach you in the evening, give you a bottle, and tell you to fetch him darkness and fill the bottle with it.

Or sometimes they'll make you swim on the grass as if you're swimming in a pool or a river.

But then there are those bullies who are completely crazy, and if you cross paths with them, things can end very badly.

This evening, some Form Four boys quarrel with a younger student and decide to teach him a lesson.

The younger boy is called Musa and is the son of a Kenyan politician.

What they do next is insane, to say the least.

They go and tie him across a railway track a few metres from their school fence, hoping to give him the scare of his life.

They then rush back to school, planning to untie him later.

The plan goes horribly wrong.

The teacher on duty orders everyone back to class, and he doesn't want to see anyone outside, or else...

The boys can't exactly tell the teacher they left someone tied to a railway line. How would they even explain that?

So they simply sit in class, hoping the boy somehow frees himself or that no train comes before they get another chance to go back.

It's pitch dark, and Musa has been lying across the railway track for almost an hour now. He's shivering like a leaf from the cold, the wind, and the light drizzle, and has cried until he can't cry anymore.

"Puuuuuuuu... Puuuuuuuu... Puuuu!!"

Musa hears it... The unmistakable hooting of a train, and for the first time in his life, he knows what real fear means.

The bullies hear it too, but somehow, they are unable to go and rescue him.

"Boom, chaka... boom, chaka... boom..."

The train roars as it approaches.

The frightened young man stares in its direction and sees it coming.

Two huge headlights stare back at him.

Then the train driver notices someone on the tracks. He hoots loudly, hoping the boy will move.

Musa is tied and can't move, and the train cannot stop in time.

The train keeps coming.

100 metres...

50 metres...

20 metres...

Crash.

Reports say the boy's father never got over what those guys did to his son. He reportedly spoke about it for years, right up until he rested few years ago.