Kenya’s High Commissioner to India Florence Weche said investigations found that her horrible tale was false. “The girl admitted that she did not tell the truth. The assault was meted on her by her ‘boyfriend, a Nigerian,” the envoy wrote in her brief to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nairobi.
“She has withdrawn the case and the police have said they would not bring up the case again.” Mr Burudi had claimed that she was beaten by a mob as she rode in a taxi I Greater Noida City, a town about 50 kilometres south east of Indian capital New Delhi.
A gang of a dozen men is said to have stopped their taxi after which they ordered both the Indian driver and his Kenyan passenger out. She said they beat her claiming she was Nigerian, a supposed reference to the bad blood between local Indians and Nigerians since the week began.
Her attack, coming just days after two Nigerians were beaten in India, accused of overdosing a local lad with drugs and who later died, could have been labelled a racial attack.
Ms Burudi had also claimed that the mob only stopped beatings after she shouted her Kenyan nationality and that the first hospital she was taken to rejected her.
But on Friday, she recanted that tale, saying “family issues” had pushed her in to trauma.
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